Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes
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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
7 hrs ago
Please also see some more information here in VicFlora (some more up to date than NSW PlantNet at the moment).:
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/ee5496e9-6145-4d6b-8179-afb68bcd67f5
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https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/ee5496e9-6145-4d6b-8179-afb68bcd67f5
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Unidentified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
Yesterday
Yeah okay ! LOL .
This sighting has special interest and provides an identification challenge .
Far away from home for you ? [Braidwood <–> Hyams ? ]
Perhaps a NatureMapr person with home closer to Hyams can go back to this plant?
With enough additional evidences you can gather a more specially interesting sighting and together we can gather an interesting identification and plant record .
No rush at all – these plants keep well in the wild !
Seeds have a bit more importance in identifying Lepidosperma spp. than these wonderful flowers in these photographs (with at least one unripe, green coloured, growing seed visible here. When ripe yellow–brown coloured.) .
This sighting has special interest and provides an identification challenge .
Far away from home for you ? [Braidwood <–> Hyams ? ]
Perhaps a NatureMapr person with home closer to Hyams can go back to this plant?
With enough additional evidences you can gather a more specially interesting sighting and together we can gather an interesting identification and plant record .
No rush at all – these plants keep well in the wild !
Seeds have a bit more importance in identifying Lepidosperma spp. than these wonderful flowers in these photographs (with at least one unripe, green coloured, growing seed visible here. When ripe yellow–brown coloured.) .
Unidentified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
Yesterday
Please use your first hand experience with this plant to assist with answering this question
(from the Flora of NSW online PlantNet key to Lepidosperma spp.):
• Culms with central biconvex ridge and thin, broad, flattened margins, 5–20 mm wide – Lepidosperma gladiatum
• Culms flat, concavo-convex, or convex on 1 face and flat on the other, 3–7 [8] mm wide – 20
...
Lepidosperma concavum
...
Lepidosperma latens
...
[presumably here also when this key gets updated: Lepidosperma prospectum and Lepidosperma sieberi. ] .
Ref' link:
• https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Lepidosperma
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(from the Flora of NSW online PlantNet key to Lepidosperma spp.):
• Culms with central biconvex ridge and thin, broad, flattened margins, 5–20 mm wide – Lepidosperma gladiatum
• Culms flat, concavo-convex, or convex on 1 face and flat on the other, 3–7 [8] mm wide – 20
...
Lepidosperma concavum
...
Lepidosperma latens
...
[presumably here also when this key gets updated: Lepidosperma prospectum and Lepidosperma sieberi. ] .
Ref' link:
• https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Lepidosperma
.
Unidentified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
Yesterday
Thank you !
One of the more recent high quality scholarly references –i recommend reading for many people here in NatureMapr–;
with the formal description of Lepidosperma prospectum;
more wonderful information;
and some taxonomic information on its superficially similar species: Lepidosperma concavum, Lepidosperma sieberi and Lepidosperma latens .
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/TEL/article/view/14879
.
One of the more recent high quality scholarly references –i recommend reading for many people here in NatureMapr–;
with the formal description of Lepidosperma prospectum;
more wonderful information;
and some taxonomic information on its superficially similar species: Lepidosperma concavum, Lepidosperma sieberi and Lepidosperma latens .
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/TEL/article/view/14879
.
Unidentified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
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