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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Isolepis fluitans (L.) R.Br. var. fluitans

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Floating aquatic or tufted terrestial rhizomatous, perennial, grass-like or herb (sedge), to 0.1 m high, stems to 0.6. Fl. green, Oct to Dec. Sand, brown sub-saline clay, gravelly loam. In drainage channels, muddy swamps, shallow lagoons, clay holes, upper slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 May 2003

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Busselton, Capel, Cranbrook, Donnybrook-Balingup, Harvey, Manjimup, Plantagenet.