Slender Spike-sedge,
Slender Spike-rush
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Regional Species Conservation Assessments per IBRA subregion.
Least concern
Near threatened
Rare
Vulnerable
Endangered
Critically endangered
Extinct
Data deficient
Adelaide
Arkaroola
Ceduna
Coober Pedy
Hawker
Innamincka
Marla
Marree
Mount Gambier
Oodnadatta
Renmark
Wudinna
Keith
Yunta
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Bridgewater (NCP01) | Naracoorte Coastal Plain | Regionally Extinct [possibly extinct] |
Lucindale (NCP03) | | Vulnerable (IUCN: VU D2) [only known from Glenroy CP] |
Kangaroo Island (KAN01) | Kanmantoo | Vulnerable (IUCN: VU D2) [small; freshwater/wet areas; could have disappeared from some areas] |
Fleurieu (KAN02) | | Near Threatened |
Mount Lofty Ranges (FLB01) | Flinders Lofty Block | Rare (IUCN: RA d(ii)) (Probable Decline) [localised; quality of habitat declined] |
Murray Lakes and Coorong (MDD03) | Murray Darling Depression | Rare (IUCN: RA d(ii)) [edge of range] |
Wimmera (MDD05) | | Vulnerable (IUCN: VU D2) |
Botanical art
Kath Alcock painting: 1
Prior names
Heleocharis multicaulis, orth.var.
Eleocharis multicaulis
Common names
Slender Spike-sedge
Slender Spike-rush
Distribution and status
Herbarium regions: Murray, Southern Lofty, Kangaroo Island, South Eastern, Green Adelaide
NRM regions: Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges, Kangaroo Island, South Australian Murray-Darling Basin, South East
AVH map: SA distribution map (external link)
Location | No. of seeds (weight grams) | Number of plants | Date collected | Collection number Collection location | Date stored | % Viability | Storage temperature | BGA | 3,400 (1.37 g) | 30 | 3-Jan-2007 | RJB70976 Murray | 1-Aug-2007 | 95% | -18°C |
BGA | 2,300 (0.82 g) | 45 | 20-Apr-2007 | RJB71375 Southern Lofty | 19-Sep-2008 | 100% | -18°C |
Location: BGA — the seeds are stored at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, MSB — the seeds are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew, England.
Number of plants: This is the number of plants from which the seeds were collected.
Collection location: The Herbarium of South Australia's region name.
% Viability: Percentage of filled healthy seeds determined by a cut test or x-ray.