Triglochin isingiana (J.M.Black) Aston APNI* 
Description: Slender caespitose annual or ephemeral to c. 12 cm high.
Leaves filiform to c. 8 cm long.
Inflorescence a spike-like raceme to c. 5 cm long, exceeding the leaves. Flowers on pedicels 1–5 mm long. Perianth segments c. 0.5 mm long. Fertile carpels 3, alternating with 3 sterile ones.
Fruit almost linear but tapering to the summit, 5–6 mm long, c. 1 mm diam. near base; fertile carpels each with 2 prominent recurved spurs, with or without 2 minute deflexed spurs between them, falling free from a ± persistent central axis.
Flowering: Growing and flowering in response to rainfall. Fruits recorded in NSW August–October
Distribution and occurrence: In shallow seasonal or ephemeral wetlands in drier areas.
NSW subdivisions: SFWP, SWP, NFWP, SWS
Other Australian states: W.A. N.T. S.A. Qld
Text by S.W.L. Jacobs Fl NSW 4 (1993), as T. calcitrapum. Added by Kerry Gibbons, 22 May 2023.
Taxon concept: Flora of Australia Online [accessed 22 May 2023].
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