Citation: T. Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst. 28:500 (1896).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Dioecious slender rhizomatous herb 5-15 cm tall; leaves usually less than 2 cm long, 0.2-0.5 mm broad, margins entire, apex more or less truncate with 3 mucros.

Sheath with a 2-fid ligule c. 0.5 mm long, male flower pedicellate, with perianth-segments united into a cupule, anther of 2 pollen-sacs, subsessile, with the connective produced into a sterile apical mucro; female flowers on pedicels up to 5 mm long, perianth-segments 3, elliptic, c. 2 mm long, stigmas conspicuous, asymmetrically funnel-shaped, recurved, strongly laciniate.

Fruiting carpel brown, oblong, c. 1 mm long, smooth or faintly ribbed, 1.5-2 times as long as broad, carpophore stalk very short, retaining the fruit within the segments.

Distribution:  In fresh or occasionally brackish water to 1 m deep in lakes or less frequently along the edges of slow streams.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and fruits: Sept. — May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available