Isolepis hookeriana
Boeck.Small tufted annual. Culms filiform, to 12(–25) cm high. Leaves reduced, blade to 10 mm long. Spikelets 1–4 per inflorescence, 1.5–5 mm long; involucral bract shorter than to slightly exceeding inflorescence; glumes obtuse, sides nerveless or 1–2-nerved, straw-coloured to dark red-brown, 1.2–1.5 mm long; stamens 3 or rarely 2; style 3-fid. Nut terete, globose to broad-ellipsoid, striate and trabeculate, white to olive-grey or blackish, opalescent, about half as long as glume, 0.5–0.7 mm long, 0.4–0.5 mm diam Flowers winter–spring.
LoM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. Excluding the drier areas of the north-west and high-rainfall areas, widespread in open, seasonally moist sites almost throughout the State.
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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