Collections made by Stephen Renvoize

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

Annual with purple tinged spikelets in digitate racemes.

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.

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

Small, many stemmed shrub 1.5metres high. Flowers mauve-pink. Occasional.

Rhizomatous fern with fronds up to 1m long.

Fern with fronds 70-100cm long on stems 1-1.5m 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.

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 solitary, round.

Woody shrub up to 100cm high. Fruits 1cm in diameter, green tinged with pink.

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

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

Tufted perennial with glaucous foliage.

Slender tufted perennial, growing in shade.

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.

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.

Tufted perennial with wiry stems.

Perennial with slender, erect stems from a bulbous base.

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.

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.

Tufted perennial with filiform leaf-blades.

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.

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.

Tree 4 metres high, with a spreading crown. Flowers white; fruits immature, green.

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