We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume II (1970) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Triglochin palustre

T. palustre L. Sp. Pl.  1753,  338.

Type locality: Europe. Widely distributed in N. Hemisphere; recorded also from S. America but apparently not from Australia.

Slender herb with long rhizomes. Lvs 5–50 cm. long; ligule of 2 short rounded lobes; lamina c. 0.5 mm. diam., slightly channelled or semicircular in section, minutely ridged. Raceme c. = peduncle, to 15 cm. long in fr.; pedicels to 6 mm. long, rather closely appressed to axis. Fls c. 3 mm. long, greenish or reddish; stylar tips erect. Fr. 8–10 × 1 mm., narrow-linear, the 3 fertile follicles not keeled, separating first at their very narrow bases while remaining attached to top of triquetrous carpophore.

DIST.: S. Recorded only from a few inland localities in Canterbury and N. Otago, and collected recently only from Tekapo. Marsh Arrow-grass.

FL. 12. FT. 12–3.

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top