- Pronunciation: BOME-ee-ah ru-bidge-ee-NO-sah
- Common Name: Soft Twigrush
- Type: Clumping Sedge. Short rhizomes, long stolons, erect, tufted.
- Family: Cyperaceae
- Size: 1 metre
- Flowers: White
- Vegetation Type: Freshwater Wetlands, wet Heath
- Species List: Emu Mt., Cooroibah airstrip, Peregian Boardwalk, SRR NNP, SRR, TAFE Girraween Marcus Dunes NNS Frog Hollow BHNR Arthur Harrold NR, Lake Cooroibah, NNS, Fraser Island,
Cultural Notes
Used for basket-making
Identification Notes
Common, flowers prominent Identifying features - Baumea sp Culms: Rounded, biconvex or flattened Inflorescence: Panicle of clustered spikelets, 1-3 bisexual flowers,usually only the lowest bearing a Nut. Involucral Bracts: Culm-like Leaves: Basal and Stem Leaves,4 angled to rounded, laterally compressed.
Landscaping Notes
Clumping Sedge. Likes wet conditions.
Feature foliage
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.
Associated Fauna
Ground Parrot habit.
