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

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Mount Lofty mat-rush.

Description:
Basal leaf sheaths brown, often fibrous; leaves filiform, 20-50 cm long, 0.5-1 mm broad, acute, plano-convex and minutely but distinctly scabrous on the margins.

Stem 5-10 cm long including the dense narrow spicate or racemose 2-3 cm long panicle, with a few short erect few-flowered branches near the base; rhachis of the inflorescence rigid, angular; flowers erect, sessile or shortly pedicellate, sometimes drooping on very short curved pedicels, solitary, with a narrow white bract about as long; perianth-segments free, the outer ones c. 3 mm long, green, membranous, lanceolate, acuminate with inflexed tips, the inner ones shorter, ovate, abruptly narrowed into obtuse tips, fleshy, yellow; female flowers campanulate (the male ones globular in shape), the perianth-segments all acute, c. 3 mm long.

Capsule ovoid or almost globular, smooth, c. 6 mm long, truncate at the summit, sometimes slightly curved, with a short stipe enclosed within the narrowed base of the perianth.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SL. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — 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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