Citation: Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 2:77 (1806).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tassel cord-rush, feather plant.

Description:
Stems stiff, slender, cylindrical, with sheathing bracts appressed, becoming brown, 1-2 cm long, the middle bracts producing filiform much-divided barren branches 10-15 cm long, the barren branchlets with minute distant leaves or scales of which the sheaths and subulate blades are each c. 2 mm long.

Spikelets several-flowered, ovoid to nearly globular, 6-10 mm long, the acuminate imbricate glumes much longer than and concealing the small flowers; the spikelets arranged in both sexes along the erect branches of a rather loose usually long panicle (to 20 cm or more); male perianth-segments 6, unequal; female perianth-segments 4, the 2 outer ones lanceolate and folded; styles 2.

Capsule flat.

Published illustration: Williams (1980) Native plants of Queensland, p. 253.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: mainly Jan — Feb.

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