Family: Cyperaceae
Cyperus brevifolius
Citation:
Hassk., Plant. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 24 (1844).
Synonymy: Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb., Descr.& Icon. 13 (1773); K. intermedia R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 219 (1810).
Common name: Mullumbimby couch, globe kyllinga.
Description:
Low grass-like perennial with creeping rhizomes; stems scattered along the rhizome or tufted, obliquely ascending to erect, slender, triquetrous, usually 5-15 cm long; leaves shorter or longer than the stems, 1.5-3 mm broad, flaccid; bracts 3 or 4, always longer than the inflorescence, sometimes as long as the stems.
Spikelets green or yellowish in a single ovoid or subglobose capitate spike, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, c. 3 mm long, nearly flat, 1-flowered; glumes 2, slightly unequal, mucronate, strongly keeled, the keel scabrous or smooth, the lower with 3 or 4 nerves on each side, the upper with 2; style 2-fid.
Nut obovoid, c. 1-1.3 x 0.6 mm, flattened laterally, lightbrown, smooth, rather shiny, half the length of the glume.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: MU, SL. Possibly native in tropical Australia. naturalised in W.Aust. The Americas, Africa and Asia;
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — May.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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