Ficinia marginata

Common name: Coarse Club-rush

Meaning of name:

Ficinia is named after Heinrich David August Ficinus (1782 – 1857), a German physician, botanist and scientist. Marginata is from the Latin word margo, meaning edge, border or margin.

Distribution:

Occurs across much of southern Australia.

Description:

A tufted herb to 20 centimetres tall. The flowers are borne from July to October.

Notes:

This species is also known as Isolepis marginata.

References:

Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings, a Glossary. FA Sharr. Third edition 2019.

Flora of the Perth Region. NG Marchant, JR Wheeler, BL Rye, EM Bennett, NS Lander, TD Macfarlane. 1987.

Plantnet https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ficinia~marginata

Atlas of Living Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2898995

Florabase https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/52108