- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Cladium articulatum R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 237 (1810)
- ≡ Baumea articulata (R.Br.) S.T.Blake (1969)
Rhizome 5–7 mm. diam., often long and creeping, covered with closely imbricating bracts. Culms 80–180 cm. × 4–6 mm., cylindrical, smooth; hollow except for transverse septa ± distinct externally in lower part of culm. Lvs ± = culms; lamina terete, with distinct transverse septa; tip subulate, pungent; sheaths very long; lowermost lvs reduced to long, papery, grey or light brown, mucronate bracts. Panicle 12–30 cm. long, drooping, much-branched; branchlets in fascicles from sheathing bracts, lowermost bract 6–20 cm. long, with lamina septate like the lvs. Spikelets exceedingly , 4–6 mm. long, deep red-brown, 1–3-fld, 1–2 fls fertile, us., but not necessarily, the lowest. Glumes 4–7, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, scabrid at the back and on the keel, margins scabrid or with very short cilia; lowermost 1–2 glumes empty. Nut c. 2 × 1.5 mm., trigonous, elliptical to obovoid, red-brown with paler thickened angles, very shortly stipitate, crowned by the cushion-like pyramidal style-base.
[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2. as Baumea articulata (R.Br.) S.T.Blake]