Family: Cyperaceae
Isolepis nodosa
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 221 ( 1810).
Synonymy: Scirpus nodosus Rottb., Descr. & Icon. 52 (1773).
Common name: Knobby club-rush.
Description:
Rhizome short, horizontal; stems densely tufted, rigid and rather stout, erect or nearly so, 50-150 cm high; leaves reduced to their sheaths.
Spikelets brown, ovoid, 4-5 mm long, numerous in a dense apparently lateral head 8-20 mm diam., the short involucral bract appearing as though a continualion of the stem; glumes obtuse, 2-3 mm long; style branches 3.
Nut obovoid, obtuse, cuneate, 0.9-1 x c. 0.7 mm, trigonous, sides flat to slightly convex, dark-brown, shiny, about half as long as the glume.
Distribution:
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Mostly coastal (except in the SE).
All States except the N.T. New Zealand, South Africa and South America.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: throughout the year, especially summer.
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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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