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Bare Twig-rush photos | Family: Sedge (Cyperaceae) |
Scientific Name: | Baumea juncea | Stems and leaves of Bare Twig-rush Photo: A J Brown | |||||
Status: | Australian, New Zealand and New Caledonian native. | ||||||
Plant Description: | Slender perennial sedge with a long rhizome. Stems are rigid and circular in cross-section and leaf blades are reduced to short, erect, flattened points. Leaf sheaths are straw-coloured to pale or dull reddish or grey-brown. Flower-heads are narrow, erect panicles from 1-8 cm long and 1 cm wide. The lowest flower bract is shorter than the flower-head. Spikelets are few, 3-6 mm long and one flowered. The 4-5 glumes are red-brown to grey-brown. Fruit is a near-globular, shining black to to dark red-brown nut. | ||||||
Habitat: | Growing in brackish swamps and near-coastal saltmarsh.
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Comments: | Most of the Victorian species of Twig-rush grow in fresh-water habitats. |