Isolepis producta
(C.B.Clarke) K.L.WilsonAquatic perennial, occasionally producing small tubers. Culms leafy, submerged and elongated, or creeping and rooting at nodes. Spikelet solitary, elliptic in outline, strongly flattened, 5–10-flowered, 3–5 mm long; involucral bract 1, shorter than or equalling spikelet, glume-like or with a short thickened appendage; glumes obtuse, conspicuously numerous-nerved, usually dark red-brown to blackish or straw-coloured tinged dark red-brown, 2.5–3.3 mm long; stamens 3; anthers 1.5–2.7 mm long; style 2-fid. Nut plano-convex, with angles slightly ribbed, obovoid, smooth, minutely reticulate, shining, grey-brown, about half as long as glume, c. 1.5 mm long, c. 1 mm diam. Flowers spring–summer.
GleP, VVP, GipP, WaP, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Occurs sporadically in lowland lagoons and streams in the southern part of the state (e.g. Casterton, Portland, Peterborough, Ballarat, Yan Yean, French Is., Orbost and Genoa areas) and a few highland swamps (e.g. Nunniong Plateau, Wulgulmerang).
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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