Isolepis montivaga (S.T.Blake) K.L.Wilson APNI* Synonyms: Scirpus montivagus S.T.Blake APNI*
Description: Densely tufted small perennial with short rhizome.
Culms filiform, 0.5–4 cm high.
Leaves longer than culms; blade to 6 cm long. Spikelets 1–3, ± hidden amongst leaves, 3–7 mm long; involucral bract to as long as culm, to 3 cm long. Glumes acute, not or scarcely mucronate, with the midrib prominently thickened distally, sides faintly and irregularly several-nerved, 1.5–2.2 mm long, whitish to straw-coloured, often flecked red-brown. Stamens 2 or 3 in lowermost flowers of a spikelet, 1 in upper; anthers 0.5–1 mm long. Style 3-fid.
Nut unequally trigonous, obovoid or ellipsoid, with angles not well-defined, half to two-thirds as long as glume, 0.9–1.3 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm diam., minutely reticulate, shining, straw-coloured to grey-brown.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in subalpine and alpine bog areas and moist open places in the Kosciusko area; also known from one location on the Northern Tablelands.
NSW subdivisions: NT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Leaves and involucral bracts are very long compared with culm height.
Text by K. L. Wilson (1993); edited KL Wilson (Apr 2012)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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