Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:242 (1878).

Synonymy: Restio fasciculatus R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 247 (1810).

Common name: None

Description:
Stems 10-20 cm high, glabrous or pubescent; the persistent sheathing bracts brown, broad, distant along the stem, each bract at the base of a dense whorled cluster of angular barren often curved branches, 1-2.5 mm long.

Female spikelets solitary, subsessile, in the cluster of branches, l-flowered, 4-5 mm long; glumes 6 or 7, closely imbricate, emarginate-mucronate, ciliate, 4-8-nerved; style simple, the stigmatic portion rather longer than the base; perianth-segments 0; male spikelets solitary, terminal, oblong, c. 4 mm long, on peduncles as long as and mixed with the whorls of short barren branches, the glumes rigid; the perianth-segments 6, narrow, thin, hyaline.

Nut indehiscent.

Published illustration: Morley & Toelken (1983) Flowering plants in Australia, fig. 219.

Distribution:    W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Nov. — Jan. '

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

Biology: No text

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