Eleocharis gracilis the slender spike rush is a slender rush type plant growing from 20 to 50 cm (7.9 to 19.7 in) tall, rarely up to one metre (3 ft 3 in) tall. Found in small clumps, growing in seasonally moist situations in many parts of south eastern Australia and New Zealand. The specific epithet gracilis is from Latin, and refers to a slender appearance. This is one of the many plants first published by Robert Brown with the type known as "(J.) v.v." (meaning "I have seen it living at Port Jackson") appearing in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen in 1810.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Slender Spike Sedge being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Eleocharis multicaulis
- Eleocharis rostellata
- Eleocharis tenuis
- Eleocharis acicularis
- Eleocharis quinqueflora
- Isolepis cernua
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Eleocharis
- Species
- Eleocharis gracilis
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