Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:364 (1878).

Synonymy: Chaetospora nana Nees in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 2:85 (1846).

Common name: Tiny bog-rush.

Description:
Small tufted annual, 2-5 cm high; stems setaceous, nodeless; leaves basal, setaceous, shorter than the stems, with glabrous sheaths; bracts 2, at least the lower as long as or longer than the inflorescence and to 1.5 mm below the upper.

Spikelets 2-5, sessile or subsessile in the terminal cluster, rarely solitary, narrow-lanceolate, 4-7 mm long, 3- or 4-flowered, somewhat reddish-brown; glumes glabrous, 1 or 2 empty; hypogynous bristles capillary, whitish, ciliate at the base, remainder scabrous, longer than the nut.

Nut turbinate-pyriform, c. 0.8 x 0.6 mm, indistinctly trigonous by 3 longitudinal narrow rib-like angles, sides convex with a few vertical less conspicuous ribs, irregularly and coarsely reticulate between the ribs, whitish-brownish, shiny, a quarter to a third of the length of the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Nov.

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

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