Empodisma minus
(Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler Spreading Rope-rushStems 20–200 cm long, loosely flexuose. Rhizome slender and hairy, not woolly. Sheathing leaves 3–10 mm long, greenish, closely appressed, usually with woolly hairs near apex; apex 1–5 mm long, divergent or reflexed, subulate. Floral bracts as for sheathing leaves, usually slightly longer than the flower. Male spikelets 4–8 mm long, solitary and sessile, or 2 together and then 1 sessile and 1 on a short pedicel. Male flowers with 6 perianth parts; anthers exserted on slender filaments. Female spikelets 4–8 mm long; floral bracts tightly inrolled. Female flowers with 4–6 perianth parts; style exserted and recoiled. Nut smooth Flowers (Aug.–) Oct.–Feb.(–Mar.).
Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. New Zealand. Common in heath-land swamps, wet creek banks and bogs, from lowlands to high alpine regions.
Conn, B.J. (1994). Restionaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 179–190. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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