Machaerina juncea
(R.Br.) T.KoyamaSlender perennial with long rhizome. Culms rigid, terete, 1–3-noded, striate, glabrous, smooth, 20–90 cm high, 1.0–2.0 mm diam. Leaves basal and cauline; blade reduced to short erect flattened mucro; sheath straw-coloured to pale reddish or grey-brown, dull. Inflorescence oblong to ovate in outline, narrow, erect, 1–8 cm long, to 1 cm diam.; lowest involucral bract shorter than inflorescence. Spikelets few, 1-flowered, 3–6 mm long; glumes 4 or 5, acute to long-acute, red-brown to grey-brown, margins glabrous, keel minutely scabrous; fertile glumes 3–5 mm long. Nut obovoid to globose, smooth with scattered pits, hispid at apex, shining, dark red-brown to black, 2.3–3.0 mm long, 1.5–2.0 mm diam. Flowers spring–summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, OtR, Strz. All States (including Lord Howe Is.) except NT. New Zealand, New Caledonia. In brackish lowland swamps and near-coastal saltmarsh, on sandy or dark silty soils.
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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