Family: Cyperaceae
Gahnia hystrix
Citation:
J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 678 (1922).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Dwarf plant, 4-15 cm high; leaf blades terete and more or less channelled, smooth, rigid, pungent-pointed, erect, 2-7 cm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, much exceeding and almost concealing the short stems and small spike-like panicle.
Spikelets subsessile, c. 4, 6-7 mm long, pale-coloured to brownish, partly enclosed in the sheaths of the leafy bracts, 1- or 2-flowered; flowering glumes about as long as the 3 or 4 outer empty ones; stamens 6.
Nut obovoid, umbilicate, gradually cuneate to a wide base, 2.8-3 x c. 1.3 mm, light-straw-coloured, shiny.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: KI.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: recorded Nov. — Jan., April.
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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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Author:
Not yet available
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