Chaetospora turbinata
R.Br.Tufted perennial. Culms erect, rigid, terete, often grooved, smooth, nodeless, 14–40 cm high, 0.6–1.7 mm diam. Leaves with blade to 16 cm long, slightly curly; sheath straw-coloured with broad hyaline margins, striate, shining; mouth glabrous; ligule absent. Inflorescence dense, head-like, hemispherical to obovoid, 0.6–1.4 cm long; 2–4 involucral bracts exceeding inflorescence, to 8 cm long. Spikelets narrow-ovate, acute, 1-flowered, 5.5–7 mm long; glumes 5–8, lowest 3–5 empty, long narrow-acute, pale red-brown, dull, with margins ciliate to glabrous; fertile glumes 4.5–6 mm long; hypogynous bristles 6, plumose, about as long as nut. Nut trigonous, obpyriform to obovoid, 3-ribbed, faintly reticulate, minutely scabrous to tuberculate near apex, dull, grey to red-brown, 1.3–2.0 mm long, 1.0–1.4 mm diam. Flowers spring–summer.
GipP, OtP, GGr, EGL, EGU, OtR, Strz. Also Qld, NSW, Tas. Of localised occurrence in its 4 disjunct localities in Victoria (Grampians, Anglesea, Cape Liptrap and Howe Range east of Mallacoota), occurring on moist, usually coarse, sandy soils, in open woodland and heath.
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.
SpinningBarrett, R.L.; Wilson, K.L.; Bruhl, J.J. (2020). Reinstatement and revision of the genus Chaetospora (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae). Telopea 23: 95–112.
