Citation: Ruiz Lopez & Pavón, Fl. Peruv. et Chil. 3:72 (1802).

Synonymy: T. decipiens R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 343 (1810); T. flaccidum Cunn., Compan. Bot. Mag. 2:378 (1837).

Common name: Streaked arrowgrass.

Description:
Slender rhizomatous perennial of salt and fresh marshes; leaves several together in tufts spaced along the rhizome, erect, either terete or flattened, 1-3 mm broad, 20-300 mm long; sheathed at the base, with an obvious ligule at the top of the sheath.

Scape 3-25 cm long, bearing a loose terminal raceme of 10-100 flowers.

fruit almost globular, c. 2 mm long; upper whorl of 3 fertile carpels streaked on the back, and alternating with 3 narrower solid sterile carpels in the lower whorl; sterile carpels remaining attached to the pedicel when fertile carpels have fallen.

Published illustration: Sainty & Jacobs (1981) Waterplants of New South Wales, pp. 270, 271.

Distribution:  Grows in swamps, lakes, river edges and mangroves.   all States.   New Zealand, the Americas and South Africa. Introduced to the Iberian Peninsula (Europe). Conservation status: native Flowering time: Fruits: Aug. — May.

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

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