Citation: Tate, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 12:131 (1889).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tiny tufted annual; stems to c. 1 cm high, frequently obsolete, always hidden by the leaves; leaves numerous, flat, firm, 1-4 cm long, glabrous; bracts similar, with rather glume-like bases, 1 to each spikelet and much exceeding it.

Spikelet usually 1 only, though sometimes there is a second one a short distance below, erect, lanceolate, pallid, 2- or 3-flowered, 6-8 mm long; glumes glabrous, the lowest fertile; bristles 0.

Nut obovoid, acute, 1ong-cuneate, c. 1.5 ~ 0.8 mm, obtusely 3angled, ribbed or not, sides convex, pallid and spotted with black to quite blackish, smooth or minutely rugulose, about a fifth of the length of the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct., Nov.

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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