Scientific Name: Empodisma minus

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  • Pronunciation:
    em-poh-DIZZ-mah MY-nus
  • Common Name:
    Spreading Rope-Rush
  • Type:
    Sedge
  • Family:
    RESTIONACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Separate male and female flowers in spikes spring to summer
  • Vegetation Type:
    Coastal Heath, damp areas
  • Species List:
    Emu Swamp, SRR NNP, SRR, Banana, TAFE Girraween Marcus Dunes BHNR, Lake Cooroibah
Identification Notes

Forms a thick tangled mat. Leaf blades reflexed, green leaf sheaths have tuft of woolly hairs at apex. stems highly branched.

Landscaping Notes

||Feature foliage - looks great massed under banksias and tall wallum shrubs and small trees||Used extensively around Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island||