Plants of the Castlemaine District

Tall Flat-sedge - native (Cyperus exaltatus)

Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family).

Australia, Asia, Africa, South America.

Occurrence: Streams and fresh water.

Identification:

it is a large sedge to 1.5m or more
it is leafy, with leaves as long or longer than the flowering stalks
the flower clusters contain numerous to very numerous flowers
four to 6 green leafy bract arises from the base of the flower clusters, the bracts are up to half a metre long.

Name. Cyperus: from the Greek cypeiros, the name for a sedge.

1: Pressed specimen. Tooboorac. 2: Tall Flat-sedge. Wakool River. The large size, the long-leafy bracts and the numerous flowers make this a distinctive sedge.