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Isolepis australiensis (Maiden & Betche) K.L.Wilson
Family Cyperaceae
Isolepis australiensis (Maiden & Betche) K.L.Wilson APNI*

Synonyms: Scirpus australiensis S.T.Blake APNI*

Description: Small tufted annual.

Culms filiform, to 15 cm high.

Leaves to 3 cm long. Spikelets 1–3 per inflorescence, 2–4 mm long; involucral bract (rarely 2) erect or spreading, to 10 mm long. Glumes acute, excurved, not or scarcely mucronate, sides nerveless or rarely with 1 nerve near midrib, 0.8–1.2 mm long, with hyaline sides (often tinged red-brown). Stamens 1–3. Style 3-fid.

Nut ± equally trigonous, obovoid, minutely verruculose or papillose, glistening, half to two-thirds as long as glume, 0.4–0.6 mm long, c. 0.3 mm diam., pale brown to dark red-brown.


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Flowering: spring–summer after rain.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in seasonally wet situations, west from the western edge of the Western Plains (e.g. Louth).
NSW subdivisions: CWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A. N.T.
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Text by K. L. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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