Bolboschoenus maritimus parts ready for parting

Unravelling of the old Bolboschoenus maritimus inflorescence parts is happening here to the pointed spikelets. First floral and together, then fruity and careless about used-up, discardable components, the spikelets gradually lose their finger-like shapes. The glumes, the bracts around the spikelets become dishevelled and dry as do the other floral parts.

The ripe fruits are dry, one-seeded achenes enclosed within the fruit walls, the pericarps. The seeds inside are glossy brown to dark brown nutlets, broadly ovoid to somewhat tear-shaped and flattened or slightly three-sided, often with a small beak-like tip. A seed is about 2 mm to 4 mm long (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Pooley, 1998; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).