Collections made by Stephen Renvoize

Erect herb with white flowers; growing in 2 metres depth of water.

Tufted perennial with glaucous foliage and red tinged spikelets. The dominant flowering grass at this time.

Tufted perennial; dominant over small areas.

Robust grass with stems up to 3 metres long; leaning on other vegetation.

Weed in vicinity of National Park scouts camp. Large tussock grass with flowering stems up to 250cm high. Racemes in false loose panicles up to 100cm long.

Tufted perennial with solitary terminal red tinged racemes

Growing on a large termite mound.

Slender perennial with bright yellow green succulent stems.

Grass with rambling stems up to 2m long, rooting at the lower nodes; sheaths pubescent.

Stoloniferous perennial.

Small wine red flowers, underwater stems, petioles and pedicels covered with a sticky jelly.

Rhizomatous fern with fronds up to 1m long.

Perennial herb with slender stems and large pink flowers.

Robust tall grass with ascending culms 2cm in diameter and 4 metres high.

Very common in some areas; lining the waterways. Used by the local people for fuel (roots), construction, sleeping mats and screens (stems).

Weed in vicinity of the National Park scouts camp. Rhizomatous perennial with erect stems and wine red inflorescences.

Weed in vicinity of the National Park scouts camp.

Very robust grass with solid culms 4 metres long and 2 centimetres in diameter at the base, geniculately ascending and rooting at the lower nodes.

Robust tall grass with ascending culms 2cm in diameter and 4 metres high.

Perennial with thick spongy decumbent stems rooting at the lower nodes and with the upper parts ascending. Forming a dense colony in approximately 1m of water.

Inflorescence purple tinged or white.

Growing in 1m of water. Stems triangular.

Stems soft, circular.

Stems solitary, round.

Tufted perennial with pale green stems and foliage. Racemes appressed to the axis.

Stoloniferous perennial with rufous hairy racemes.

Perennial with trailing stolons 2-3 metres long. Racemes rufous, hairy.

Woody shrub with ascending stems, extending out into the water. Occasionally occuring.

Erect annual, growing on abandoned cultivation mound.

Robust tufted perennial with pink tinged stems and contrasting green leaf sheaths.

Slender tufted perennial, growing in shade.

Robust tufted grass up to 3 metres high. Stems bright yellow, contrasting with the green leaf sheaths. Inflorescence compound, up to 1 metre long.

Climber on vegetation beside waterway; common.

Spikelets tinged red when fresh.

Slender grass with red tinged spikelets.

Slender grass with scabrid sheaths and pubescent nodes.

Slender grass with smooth stems.

Perennial herb with saggitate leaves. Inflorescence branched or an unbranched spike, flowers white, whorled. Abundant to dominant beside waterways and in deep water swamp.

Abundant to dominant in the area of the flats.

Tufted perennial with golden yellow spikelets. Sub-dominant over large areas.

Occasionally occuring robust herb with decumbent branching stems up to 100cm long and yellow flowers.

Branching shrub 50cm high above water level. Flowers magenta.

Tufted perennial with rose red spikelets in oblong panicles.

Perennial herb with small pink-lilac flowers.

Flowers white.

Leaves floating, flat, each bearing a cluster of flowers, only one of which is open. Petals 5, yellow, ciliate fringed. Growing in 1 metre depth of water.

Perennial grass rooted on the bottom; culms erect, awns red.

Tufted perennial with erect, red coloured stems. Flowering nearly over at this time.

Tufted perennial with succulent stems and white or red tinged spikelets.

Robust grass with stout ascending stems up to 2.5metres long and rooting at the lower nodes.

Tufted perennial with succulent stems, yellow green leaves and grey or red tinged spikelets.

Tufted perennial with pale green foliage and racemes.

Tall reed-like grass up to 4 metres high, with woody perennial stems which become branched after the first season. Dominant or co-dominant with Papyrus along waterways and beside lagoons.

Occasionally occuring large annual herb up to 150cm high. Stems upright and soft, flowers blue.

Erect stems bearing terminal clusters of white spikelets.

Grass with swollen, red coloured stems and sheaths; rooting at the lower nodes. Foliage deep green; spikelets bright yellow green.

Culms yellow green, spongy, purple at the base. Spikelets yellow green

Aquatic grass with erect culms; rooting in 50 cm of water.

Grass with tall culms bearing spicate inflorescences with purple spikelets.

Erect stemmed perennial grass with purple tinged spikelets.

Annual with geniculately ascending stems.

Slender unbranched scrambling stems with tiny white flowers in clusters in the axils of the leaves.

Herb with erect or rambling stems and clusters of tiny white flowers in the axils of the leaves.

Tough tufted perennial with erect wiry stems; panicle branches appressed.

Tufted perennial with spreading inflorescence branches.

Frequently occuring grass.

Perennial herb with climbing stems and greenish cream flowers.

Tufted perennial with yellow stems and glaucous spikelets.

Tufted perennial with bright yellow anthers. Abundant.

Abundant to dominant over large areas of the flats.

Robust perennial; the stems 100-250 cm high, bulbous at the base; spikelets golden yellow. Abundant to dominant.

Tufted perennial with erect strap like leaves up to 3 metres long. Dominant along waterways in limited areas.

Floating aquatic with yellow flowers.

Climber on Papyrus and Phragmites at the southern edge of the lagoon. Flowers pale yellow.

Aquatic grass with floating culms containing a spongy pith; the upper part of the culm becoming upright.