Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 66:248 (1943).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pointed mat-rush.

Description:
Leaves 20-60 cm long, rigid, smooth, terete and narrowly or broadly channelled or flat, 1-6 mm broad often on the same plant, often toothed at the apex, the basal sheaths becoming fibrous.

Male flowers greenish, thin, in a dense panicle 3-5 cm long, with spike like obtuse erect-spreading alternate branches 1-2 cm long, covered with crowded pedicellate flowers, segments free, spreading, the outer c. 2.5 mm long, membranous, acuminate, the inner thicker, almost orbicular, c. 2 mm long; pedicel slender, c. 1.5 mm long, with a linear hyaline bract longer than it; lower part of the rhachis and stem flat, 3-4 mm broad, rigid, smooth (not papillose); female flowers in a contracted but not dense panicle 2-4 cm long, the branches short, erect-spreading; perianth stiff, c. 4 mm long, campanulate, umbilicate at the base, erect, spreading or drooping, on pedicels 2-3 mm long, with a linear hyaline bract about as long; rhachis and stem rigid, smooth.

Capsule ovoid or almost globular, smooth, c. 6 mm long, truncate at the summit, sometimes slightly curved, the perianth-segments spreading below its base.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.

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

Biology: No text

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