Citation: Boeckeler, Linnaea 38:286 (1874).

Synonymy: Elynanthus sculptus Nees in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 2:78 (1846).

Common name: Gimlet bog-rush.

Description:
Small annual, 3-20 cm high, with tufted rather slender erect or curved compressible striate stems; leaves shorter than the stems, almost setaceous, channelled or the lower ones reduced to the sheaths.

inflorescence racemose, to 7 cm long; bracts usually 2-4, distant, leaf-like, the lowest much longer than the raceme, the upper gradually shorter, each with 1-3 sessile or nearly sessile spikelets in its axil; spikelets lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, brownish to purplish, 5-7 mm long, 2-4-flowered; glumes glabrous but often with more or less scabrous keels, the first usually empty; bristles 2 or 3, minute or absent.

Nut obovoid-pyriform, rostrate, cuneate to the wide base, c. 1.2 x 0.7 mm, trigonous with prominently fibbed angles from the base to the attenuate tip, white, spotted dark, more or less shiny, about two-thirds of the length of the glume.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July, Oct., Nov.

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

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