Lepidosperma neesii
Kunth Stiff Rapier-sedgeTufted perennial with short rhizome. Culms rigid, erect, terete to ± angular, often 1(–2)-grooved, glabrous, smooth, 20–75 cm high, 0.8–2.0 mm diam. Leaf-blades terete with 1 side flattened or grooved, or obscurely 4-angled, shorter than culms, 0.7–1.3 mm diam.; sheaths straw-coloured to reddish above, dark brown at base, not viscid, dull. Inflorescence oblong to ovate in outline, erect, dense, 2–9 cm long, 1–1.5 cm diam.; involucral bract shorter than inflorescence. Spikelets few, densely clustered, c. 6 mm long; glumes 5 or 6, long-acute, often mucronate, puberulous to glabrous, red-to grey-brown, the 1–3 lowest empty, somewhat shorter than fertile glumes, which are 4.5–5.0 mm long; hypogynous scales 5 or 6, whitish, from one-eighth to one-quarter length of nut. Nut narrow-ellipsoid, whitish to pale red-brown, wrinkled to smooth, shining, 2.0–2.8 mm long, 1.3–1.6 mm diam. Flowers spring.
Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, OtR, Strz. Also SA, NSW. Locally abundant on seasonally damp, sandy soils in heaths and woodlands of southern Victoria.
Wilson, K.L. (1994). Cyperaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 238–356. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
