Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Xyris juncea
Common name
Dwarf yellow-eye
Family
Xyridaceae
Where found
Damp or swampy areas, often in heath. Coast and ranges north from Milton. Coastal near Genoa (Vic).
Notes
Perennial herb. Flower stalks to 0.46 m long, flattened cylindrical to cylindrical, occasionally ribbed, occasionally warty. Leaves clustered at the base of the plant, flat to flattened cylindrical, 2.5–30 cm long, about 1 mm wide, basally wrinkled with short transverse ridges, margins often paler than the blades, and occasionally covered with minute warts; sheathing base 1–4 cm long, brown to pink, not shiny. Flowers yellow, with 3 petals each 5–9 mm long. Flower buds contained within tight oval to round brownish heads 4–7 mm long, 4–8 mm in diameter. Flowers opening one at a time from within the flower cluster, rarely 2 flowers open at the same time. Flowering: late spring to summer.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Xyris~juncea (accessed 12 February, 2021)
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