Scleria mackaviensis Boeckeler APNI* 
Description: Slender perennial with very short rhizome.
Culms scabrous, 5–30 cm high, 0.8–1.5 mm diam.
Leaves pubescent, 1–2 mm wide; contraligule short. Inflorescence narrow, often longer than culm, 3–20 cm long, consisting of 2–4 small clusters. Spikelets bisexual or male, 4–6 mm long; male spikelets several-flowered; bisexual spikelets with several male flowers.
Nut-bearing glumes acute to long-acute, 4.5–5.5 mm long, glabrous or slightly hairy near midrib, green to straw-coloured, tinged purplish red marginally. Stamens 3; anthers 2–2.5 mm long. Disk 3-lobed, white to pale brown; lobes somewhat spreading, membranous, broad, truncate, undulate. Nut obscurely trigonous, globose to ellipsoid, much shorter than glumes, 1.6–2.3 mm long, 1.6–2 mm diam., ± wrinkled, occasionally white-pubescent.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Coastal ranges north from Candelo area; inland south to Wellington. Grows in drier sites in open forest and woodland, often on rocky slopes.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Disk lobes are very occasionally red-dotted.
Text by K. L. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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