Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes
May I highly recommend to each of you making plants' sightings here in NatureMapr,
one of the top in the world, plant identification processes, guide books and references,
by:
excellent Ian D. Clarke (1950–)
botanist from the National Herbarium of Vic. and Royal Botanic Gardens :
(2015)
Name those grasses :
identifying grasses, sedges and rushes.
Melbourne, Victoria :
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria .
ISBN: 9780980407648 .
https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6936301
–includes grasses (Poaceae) but as said in the subtitle, not only grasses, furthermore sedges (Cyperaceae) and rushes (Restionaceae) .
– available in printed paperback book .
All the best,
Jason Stewart 2025 June 17th .
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PEdwards
wrote:
19 Sep 2025
I have attached GPS Lat/Long coordinates - E 482862.4 N 6702377 - to each submitted species for the Shannondale Grass & Sedges list. However the map still shows my records to be all firmly stuck at the house and garden, which are not within the Conservation Agreement area. If they may not be acceptable to Land Libraries could someone please let me know if I have to re-send them all, or if perhaps the GPS can be easily changed to this now corrected site for Lomandra multiflora
Best wishes.
Best wishes.
Lomandra multiflora
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
19 Sep 2025
@PEdwards .
Good morning !
The second photograph here clearly identifies to _Lomandra laxa_
(not _Lomandra filiformis_ ) .
Please remove this second photograph .
The third photograph, which species does this identify to please?
Good morning !
The second photograph here clearly identifies to _Lomandra laxa_
(not _Lomandra filiformis_ ) .
Please remove this second photograph .
The third photograph, which species does this identify to please?
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
19 Sep 2025
@PEdwards Good morning !
Please notice that you have duplicated this sighting with a synonym here: Sighting: # 4697907 Unverified Grass .
In your view which of these two synonyms has currency?
Have you read, studied and formed a view of this scholarly taxonomy update? :
• Larridon, I., Zuntini, A.R., Barrett, R.L., Wilson, K.L., Bruhl, J.J., Goetghebeur, P., Baker, W.J., Brewer, G.E., Epitawalage, N., Fairlie, I., Forest, F., Sabino Kikuchi, I.A.B., Pokorny, L., Semmouri, I., Spalink, D., Simpson, D.A., Muasya, A.M. & Roalson, E.H. (2021 January 4)
Resolving generic limits in Cyperaceae tribe Abildgaardieae using targeted sequencing.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 196 : 163–187 .
I have not read this due to busy on other priorities .
The Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria still has to get around to reaching a collective view on these name changes,
hence APC(–APNI) at the moment recognises _Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. as the accepted name while APC(–APNI) has documented the change from the above reference to _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
The Flora of NSW online PlantNet has accepted the name _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
While in the 1993 printed Flora of NSW this species had the name _Abildgaardia vaginata_ .
References:
• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025): Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
_Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/56037/api/apni-format
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ (R.Br.) Domin → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/96434/api/apni-format
.
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fimbristylis~vaginata
.
All the best now,
Jason Stewart .
Please notice that you have duplicated this sighting with a synonym here: Sighting: # 4697907 Unverified Grass .
In your view which of these two synonyms has currency?
Have you read, studied and formed a view of this scholarly taxonomy update? :
• Larridon, I., Zuntini, A.R., Barrett, R.L., Wilson, K.L., Bruhl, J.J., Goetghebeur, P., Baker, W.J., Brewer, G.E., Epitawalage, N., Fairlie, I., Forest, F., Sabino Kikuchi, I.A.B., Pokorny, L., Semmouri, I., Spalink, D., Simpson, D.A., Muasya, A.M. & Roalson, E.H. (2021 January 4)
Resolving generic limits in Cyperaceae tribe Abildgaardieae using targeted sequencing.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 196 : 163–187 .
I have not read this due to busy on other priorities .
The Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria still has to get around to reaching a collective view on these name changes,
hence APC(–APNI) at the moment recognises _Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. as the accepted name while APC(–APNI) has documented the change from the above reference to _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
The Flora of NSW online PlantNet has accepted the name _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
While in the 1993 printed Flora of NSW this species had the name _Abildgaardia vaginata_ .
References:
• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025): Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
_Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/56037/api/apni-format
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ (R.Br.) Domin → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/96434/api/apni-format
.
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fimbristylis~vaginata
.
All the best now,
Jason Stewart .
Lepidosperma laterale
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
19 Sep 2025
Hi PEdwards, thanks for your sighting. Your sighting contains multiple species. To help us verify each species, please submit the 3rd photo as a separate sighting. You can edit this sighting and click the duplicate button to make a duplicate of the original sighting.
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