The great families of the botanical kingdom all have members on the seashore.
The sedge family is no exception.
This interesting sedge has stiff leaves and grows in a trailing manner, putting forth a new plantlet along a trailing stolon that grows under sand. Such is the way it has evolved to deal with the vissisitudes of the shifting sand dunes.
Closeup of flowering spikelets
Previously the species was known as Cyperus pedunculatus
About David Tng
I am
David Tng, a hedonistic botanizer who pursues plants with a fervour. I chase the opportunity to delve into various aspects of the study of plants. I have spent untold hours staring at mosses and allied plants, taking picture of pollen, culturing orchids in clean cabinets, counting tree rings, monitoring plant flowering times, etc. I am currently engrossed in the study of plant ecology (a grand excuse to see 'anything I can). Sometimes I think of myself as a shadow taxonomist, a sentimental ecologist, and a spiritual environmentalist - but at the very root of it all, a "plant whisperer"!
Leaf Whispering in the Tropics 