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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Juncaginaceae
Triglochin turriferum

Citation: Ewart, Victorian Nat. 23:43 (1906).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Turret (or tiny) arrowgrass.

Description:
Small glabrous annual; leaves terete or slightly flattened, 6-10 cm long; scape about as long as the leaves, or shorter.

Raceme 2-4 cm long, of 5-10 distant flowers.

Fruit shortly pedicellate, c. 4 mm long, cylindrical with a short conical summit; carpels 3, all fertile, rounded on the back, rigid, connate in all their length; each with 2 short thick spreading usually hooked spurs at the base; no persistent style when carpels have fallen.

Distribution:    known principally from W.Aust. and Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Fruits: Sept.


SA Distribution Map based
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