Citation: Hook. F., Fl. Tasm. 2:81 (1858).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Floating bog-rush.

Description:
Plant floating; stems more or less elongated and branched, mostly 10-25 cm long, slender, flaccid, several-noded; leaves capillary, flaccid, 2-6 cm long.

Spikelets solitary, terminal on the stems or their branches rarely with 1 or 2 sessile ones lower down, linear to lanceolate, 9-11 mm long, compressed, 2-4-flowered, bract glume-like or that of the second or third spikelet with a long capillary lamina; glumes glabrous, membranous, subobtuse, the lowest alone empty or sometimes also fertile; hypogynous bristles 0.

Nut somewhat ellipsoid to obovoid, obtuse, cuneate to a narrow circular base, c. 1.3 x 0.8-0.9 mm, trigonous with more or less prominent often ribbed angles, sides convex, light-brown spotted brownish-black, smooth, rather dull, about a quarter of the length of the glume.

Distribution:  Grows rooted in the bottom of usually still water, with the rest of the plant floating. S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI, SE.   Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct., Feb.

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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