- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Scirpus nodosus Rottb., Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl. 24 (1772)
- ≡ Isolepis nodosa (Rottb.) R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 221 (1810)
- ≡ Holoschoenus nodosus (Rottb.) A.Dietr. (1833)
- ≡ Scirpoides nodosus (Rottb.) Soják (1972)
- = Ficinia guttata Endl. (1833)
- = Isolepis monocephala Steud. (1855)
- = Scirpus nodosus var. macrostchya Benth. (1878)
Rhizome short, 5–10 mm. diam., woody, covered with red-brown bracts 5–10 mm. long. Culms (15)–30–90–(120) cm.×1–2 mm., densely crowded on the rhizome, rush-like, rigid, erect, terete or slightly compressed, striated when dry. Lvs reduced to 3–6 basal sheaths, the uppermost 5–13 cm. long, brown or red-brown, the oblique orifice slightly dilated. Infl. an apparently lateral, solitary, hemispherical head, 0.7–1.5 cm. wide, of ∞, densely crowded, sessile spikelets; subtending bract continuous with the culm, rigid, erect, pungent, > infl. Spikelets 3–4 mm. long, ovoid, light brown. Glumes broadly ovate, obtuse, margins entire, ± apiculate, reddish towards the tip, lateral nerves conspicuous. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 1 mm. long, < 1 mm. wide, plano-convex to trigonous, apiculate, dark brown to black, shining.
[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2 as Scirpus nodosus Rottb.]