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Aquatic plants

Bolboschoenus medianus​
                            Marsh Club-Rush

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Wetland Planting Zone
Shallow Marsh/ Deep Marsh
Approved Format
600cc
Family
Cyperaceae
Form
Bolboschoenus medianus is a perennial sedge up to 2m tall
Foliage
Leaves alternate up the stems with a sheath at the base, blades about 50cm long , 6-11mm wide, flat, grass-like
Flowers
Flower clusters at the tops of the flowering stems, umbel-like, with 4-6 branches bearing clusters of 1-6 spikelets, subtended by 2-6 leaf-like bracts
Fruit
Nut plano-convex or trigonous with concave faces, 3-4mm long, 2-2.5mm diameter, shining, mostly non-obviously reticulate
Habitat
Grows in swamps and around waterholes
Distinctive Features
Differs from the other species in its unequally trigonous nut and style varying from 2-fid to 3-fid in the one inflorescence
Similar Species
Vegetatively, very similar to Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
Comments
Fine leaf favoured by water birds for nesting material 

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