Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes
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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
36 min ago
In the Flora of NSW online PlantNet botanical key,
IMHO this keys out to _Lepidosperma_laterale_ with the leaves of the narrowest width within the width–range stated in the _Lepidosperma_laterale_ key branch –quotation:
" Culms flat, or slightly convex on 1 face, or concavo-convex, 30–100 cm long, 2–8 mm wide " .
Many more species are known to occur 'hiding in plain sight' as overlooked species undescribed as yet by European–ethnocentric origin science, which nowadays does have at least clues about these many undescribed species and some scholarly publications referring to them, including those so far included in the broad sense of _Lepidosperma_laterale_ .
Ref':
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Lepidosperma
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidosperma~laterale
.
IMHO this keys out to _Lepidosperma_laterale_ with the leaves of the narrowest width within the width–range stated in the _Lepidosperma_laterale_ key branch –quotation:
" Culms flat, or slightly convex on 1 face, or concavo-convex, 30–100 cm long, 2–8 mm wide " .
Many more species are known to occur 'hiding in plain sight' as overlooked species undescribed as yet by European–ethnocentric origin science, which nowadays does have at least clues about these many undescribed species and some scholarly publications referring to them, including those so far included in the broad sense of _Lepidosperma_laterale_ .
Ref':
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Lepidosperma
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidosperma~laterale
.
Lepidosperma sp.
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
4 hrs ago
For a start a provisional identification.
Pending more work by me to identify this to species .
Pending more work by me to identify this to species .
Lepidosperma sp.
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
18 May 2025
In the Cyperaceae botanical plant family.
To work on towards identifying to the species .
To work on towards identifying to the species .
Unverified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
waltraud
wrote:
16 May 2025
My experience is that frogs would use any protective cover including exotic Umbrella sedge. In this respect they are opportunistic - like little woodland birds which use blackberry for cover or firethorns for building nests .... We therefore covered only half of the umbrella sedge that grows at the fringe of this old farm dam.
Cyperus eragrostis
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