in Room. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 2: 77 (1817) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Tufted annual or possibly perennial. Culms erect, terete, striate, nodeless or 1-noded, 3–25(–55) cm high, 0.5–1.2 mm diam. Leaves with blade to 15 cm long; sheath straw-coloured to dark red-brown, striate, ± shining; mouth glabrous; ligule present. Inflorescence of 1 loosely hemispherical cluster of 6–16 spikelets, usually with 1–4 clusters below, erect, 1–15 cm long; lowest involucral bract to 17 cm long. Spikelets narrow-ovate, acute, 1–3-flowered, 2.5–7.5 mm long; glumes 4–6, lowest 2–4 empty, acute, red-brown to blackish, shining, with glabrous margins, midvein often scabrous; fertile glumes 2.0–5.5 mm long; hypogynous bristles 5 or 6, not plumose, shorter than or equalling nut. Nut trigonous, obovoid to subglobose, 3-ribbed, reticulate-pitted to trabeculate, glabrous, shining, whitish, 1.0–1.2 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm diam. Flowers spring–summer.
Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, MuF, MuM, NIS, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. New Zealand, Japan. Mostly in seasonally damp or wet habitats, but reduced annual forms occur in some drier situations. A variable species, which may include more than one taxon.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Murray Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Bridgewater | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Murray Fans | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Far East | present | native | |
Victorian Alps | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |