Description: Native, warm season, perennial sedge 90-200 cm tall and with stout rhizomes. Stems are terete, transversely septate (not obvious when fresh), nodeless and 4–10 mm diam. Leaves are basal; blades are stem-like, equalling or exceeding the stems and to 10 mm diam. Flowerheads are panicle-like oblong in outline, loose, drooping and 15–45 cm long. Spikelets are numerous, 2–5-flowered, 3.5–5 mm long and red-brown. Flowering is in spring and summer. Grows in standing water of lagoons, deeper swamps, and streams; it is mostly coastal. Date: 13 September 2008, 09:38. Source:
Baumea articulata stem1. Author:
Harry Rose from Dungog, Australia. Camera location
30° 53′ 16.27″ S, 153° 04′ 04.66″ E View all coordinates using:
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