Plants typically bulbous at base. Leaf margins densely ciliate. Tepals 1.9–2.6 mm long, pale to reddish brown, usually with distinct pale margins; anthers (0.3–)c. 0.5(–0.7) mm long; capsule subequal to shortly exceeding tepals, mid-brown to dark reddish brown. Flowers mainly Nov.–Feb.
MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, MonT, HFE, VAlp. All states except NT, Qld. Virtually coextensive with var. meridionalis and occasionally growing in association with it.
Plants with inflorescences composed of a single flower cluster, dark reddish brown tepals and capsules, and anthers c. 0.5 mm long have sometimes been identified as L. ovata Edgar. In the absence of other features which reliably define L. ovata, these plants are here treated merely as reduced forms of L. meridionalis var. densiflora.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Luzula. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 233–238. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
