Isolepis habra
(Edgar) SojákSlender shortly rhizomatous perennial, occasionally proliferating. Culms filiform, 7–30 cm high. Leaves well-developed, blades to 12 cm long. Inflorescence sometimes proliferating. Spikelets 2 or 3, rarely reduced to 1, 2–3 mm long; involucral bract exceeding inflorescence; glumes ± acute, not or scarcely mucronate, sides ± conspicuously 3–4-nerved, straw-coloured tinged red-brown or uniformly dark red-brown, 1.3–1.8 mm long; stamens 2 or rarely 3 in the lower flowers in a spikelet, 1 in upper; anthers 0.5–0.7 mm long; style 3-fid. Nut ± equally trigonous, with angles well-defined, ellipsoid to broad-ellipsoid or ovoid, minutely roughened, glistening, straw-coloured to pale red-brown, c. three-quarters as long as glume, 0.8–1.4 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm diam. Flowers spring–summer.
Wim, VRiv, GipP, OtP, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. New Zealand, subantarctic islands. Chiefly alpine or subalpine, with disjunct occurrences at lower altitudes.
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.
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