Eleocharis cylindrostachys Boeckeler

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 11:59. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys flowerhead5. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:08. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys nut2. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:02. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys stem2. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:01. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys plant6. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:08. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys glumes3. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:02. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys flowerhead2. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:08. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys glume1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:00. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys flowerhead6. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:02. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys stem1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:00. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys plant1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:08. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys flowerhead1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:01. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys plant4. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:08. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys glume2. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Spike-rush, probably Eleocharis cylindrostachys. Eleocharis grows in water, or edge of water, or swampy areas. Eleocharis cylindrostachys is a tufted plant about 30-50 cm high. Kings Plains Rd, near Glen Innes, NSW Australia, January 2009. Date: 13 January 2009, 08:59. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys. Author: John Tann from Sydney, Australia. Camera location29° 38′ 20.4″ S, 151° 31′ 22.8″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-29.639000; 151.523000.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:01. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys plant3. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 11:59. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys flowerhead3. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:02. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys stem3. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:00. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys plant2. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 12:01. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys plant5. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 1 May 2016, 18:08. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys nut1. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge with very short rhizomes. Culms are tufted, rounded, mostly 30–50 cm tall, 1–1.5 mm diam. Spikelets are cylindrical and 5–20 mm long. Glumes have a distinct midrib, and are 2.2–3.5 mm long, straw-coloured and often tinged red-brown. Bristles are rather stout, flattened, closely and retrorsely toothed, about as long as nut together with style base. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nuts are biconvex, obovoid, 1.1–1.25 mm long, smooth, shining and yellowish to dark brown. Flowering is from spring to summer. Date: 29 June 2009, 11:59. Source: Eleocharis cylindrostachys flowerhead4. Author: Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location29° 04′ 27.25″ S, 153° 20′ 30.03″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth-29.074236; 153.341676.

Wellingrove, New South Wales, Australia