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.

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.

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.

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

Stoloniferous perennial with rufous hairy racemes.

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

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.

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.

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

Abundant to dominant in the area of the flats.

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

Perennial herb with small pink-lilac flowers.

Flowers white.

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.

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

Floating aquatic with yellow flowers.

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

Climber on Papyrus growing beside waterway. Flowers white.