Shiny Bog-rush

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Family: Sedge (Cyperaceae)

Scientific Name:	Schoenus nitens
Status:	Native to Australia, New Guinea and South America.
Plant Description:	Perennial sedge with a slender creeping rhizome. Stems rigid and grooved, from 3-37 cm tall and 0.5-1 mm wide. Leave blades to 16 cm long, sheaths red-brown, smooth and shining. Flower-heads loosely hemispherical or reduced to a single spikelet, 0.2-1 cm in diameter with the lowest flower bract to 6 cm long. Spikelets 3-5 mm long with 4-7, red-brown to dark yellow-brown, glumes and 2-3 flowers. Fruit a triangular nut, 1.1-1.6 mm long, subtended by 6 feather-like bristles.
Habitat:	Common along the Victorian coastline, growing in damp areas behind sand dunes. Also found fringing salt lakes and brackish swamps across Western Victoria. Region Salinity Class Waterlogging Class Wimmera, Western, *Gippsland S0, S1, S2 W2, W3 *near coastal only
Comments:	There are more than 20 Bog-rush species in Victoria. Many occupy seasonally wet places in the environment, including sandy heaths. Common Bog-rush (Schoenus apogon) is one example.

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