Lepidosperma sieberi Kunth APNI* Description: Tufted perennial with short vertical rhizome. Culms rigid, erect, flat, or convex on one face, or concavo-convex, glabrous, smooth or striate, 20–60 cm high, 3–7 mm wide; margins scabrous or scaberulous, sharp.
Leaves similar in form to culms but usually shorter, 3–6 mm wide; sheath straw-coloured or rarely reddish near apex, dark yellow-brown to grey-brown at base, not viscid, ± dull.
Inflorescence ovate to oblong in outline, erect, ± dense, 3–15 cm long, 2–4 cm diam.; involucral bract shorter than inflorescence (rarely longer if inflorescence is depauperate). Spikelets numerous, 5–8 mm long. Glumes 6–8, puberulous, red-brown to grey-brown; 2 or 3 lowest empty, shorter than fertile glumes, obtuse to acute, mucronate; fertile 6–7 mm long, long-acute to acute. Scales 6, one-third to three-fifths the length of nut, whitish. Anthers 2.5–4.0 mm long, excluding appendage 0.3–1.0 mm long.
Nut ovoid to obovoid, 2.7–4.0 mm long, 1.3–1.8 mm diam., pale to dark brown, shining, smooth.
Flowering: Spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath, woodland and forest on sandy soils; mainly coastal areas, also Hilltop, and the Budawang Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
This was long confused with L. concavum, which is a somewhat more robust species restricted to the Sydney coastal region. [The description here has yet to be finalised]
Text by K. L. Wilson (1993); edited KL Wilson Feb 2017)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993) as L. concavum p.p.
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