Approved Format: >90cm3 plants (such as 93cc HIKO stock)
Family: Juncaceae
Form: Juncus flavidus, or Yellow Rush, is a tufted perennial rush spreading from underground stems
Foliage: Leaves reduced to loose basal sheaths to 30cm long, reddish-brown to dark brown towards the base
Flowers: Flowers scattered or clustered; 3-6 stamens. Main bract continues above flowers for 30cm. Capsules straw-coloured with golden-brown tip, shorter than or equal to flowers.
Fruit: Capsule shorter than to occasionally longer than outer tepals, ellipsoid, obtuse, not or scarcely apiculate, golden brown
Habitat: Swamps and stream banks in areas of higher rainfall
Distinctive Features: Erect dull yellow-green to blue-green stems to 5.5mm diameter with crowded barely raised ridges.
Similar species: Distinguished from Baumea articulata by the flat, ribbon-like leaves.
Comments: The most widespread native Cyperus in Victoria particularly in the South, yet now considered rare on the volcanic plains
