Plant Details

Scientific Name: Empodisma minus
  • Pronunciation: em-poh-DIZZ-mah MEE-nus
  • Common Name: Spreading Rope-Rush
  • Type: Restiad, herbaceous Perennial
  • Family: RESTIONACEAE
  • Size: Stems up to 2m long
  • Vegetation Type: Wet Heath 
  • Species List: Emu Swamp, SRR NNP, SRR, Banana, TAFE Girraween Marcus Dunes BHNR, Lake Cooroibah

Identification Notes

Leaf blades reflexed, green Leaf sheaths have tuft of woolly hairs at apex. stems highly branched.

Landscaping Notes



Feature foliage - looks great massed under banksias and tall Wallum shrubs and small trees

Used extensively around Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island

  • Empodisma minus
  • Empodisma minus
  • Empodisma minus
  • Empodisma minus
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