Club-rush - a native? (Isolepis marginata)

Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family).

Native of Australia, South Africa. The local populations may be native, or South African.

Occurrence: damp areas.

Identification:

• it is a small tufted plant
• the flowering stalks are up to 10cm high
• the leaves are less than half the length of the flowering stalks
• the flowers are in clusters, with 1-6 spikelets per cluster
• the flowers in each spikelet are arranged around the stalk (not oppositely arranged).

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