Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 63:242 (1939).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Rhizome horizontal, rather stout, its scales and those at the base of the stem shining, brown or yellowish-brown; stems terete, erect, 12-30 cm long, c. I mm thick, without nodes above the base; leaves all near the base, the dark-brown inner sheaths densely bearded at the orifice, bearing short erect subulate blades to 15 mm long; panicle reduced almost to a raceme, 2-4 cm long, rather dense; bracts very short, subulate.

Spikelets pedicellate, solitary in the axils of the bracts or in groups of 2-4, lanceolate, acute, 9-13 mm long, with 1 fertile flower; glumes woolly-ciliate in the margins, 3 or 4 lowest empty; hypogynous bristles 0.

Nut obovoid-pyriform, obtuse, cuneate to a long and wide base, 1.5-2 x c. 0.8 mm, obscurely trigonous, sometimes 3-ribbed, transversely rugose all over, white to red-brown, dull, about a fifth of the length of the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, YP, SE. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.

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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