Collections made by Stephen Renvoize

Annual with purple tinged spikelets in digitate 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Erect annual, growing on abandoned cultivation mound.

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.

Slender grass with smooth stems.

Slender grass with scabrid sheaths and pubescent nodes.

Slender grass with red tinged spikelets.

Spikelets tinged red when fresh.

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.

Perennial herb with slender erect unbranched stems bearing terminal clusters of yellow flowers.

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

Erect grass growing in 2 metres of water. Stems soft, inflated.

Tufted perennial with pale green foliage and racemes.

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

Robust tufted perennial with stems up to 2.5 metres high. Foliage pale yellow green.

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.

Erect stems bearing terminal clusters of white spikelets.

Perennial herb with climbing stems and greenish cream flowers.

Climber on Papyrus growing beside waterway. Flowers white.