Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Triglochin striata
Common name
Streaked arrowgrass
Family
Juncaginaceae
Where found
Periodically inundated salt marshes or shallow saline aquatic habitats. Coastal.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m high. Rhizome soft, hairless. Leaves forming tufts spaced along the rhizome, each 2–52 cm long, 1–5.5 mm wide, basal sheath with a distinct blunt ligule. Flowers about 2 mm long, with 6 'petals' in two whorls, falling readily. Flowers in elongated clusters of 4- to about 200 flowers, usually 1–15 cm long, elongating to 29 cm long at the seeding stage. Flowering: during the warmer months. Seed cases almost globular to oval, 1.5–3 mm long, 1.5–2.4 mm wide, with 6 carpels, 3 carpels producing seed alternating with 3 undeveloped carpels that do not produce seed.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Triglochin~striata (accessed 25 March, 2021)
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