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Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

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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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JaneR wrote:
8 hrs ago
And re-done to Machaerina gunnii
Machaerina gunnii
JaneR wrote:
9 hrs ago
originally ID as Lepidosperma urophorum, but colour of leaf sheaths and bracts not dark enough: so re-ID as Lepidosperma sp.
Machaerina gunnii
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
25 Jul 2025
I have checked the sources, predominantly from excellent Jian Wang Queensland Herbarium,
and confirmed this identification.
Well known and recorded in this area .

For more information refer to these sources' and their references therein:

• Jian Wang, Ph.D. University of Queensland, Senior Botanist at Queensland Government.
ResearchGate – regularly publishing Lomandra spp. new formal descriptions in various scholarly journals:
→ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jian-Wang-143
.

• Wang Jian (2019) Flowering plants of Queensland: Species of _Lomandra_ .
→ https://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/9297
.
Lomandra laxa
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
24 Jul 2025
Perhaps _Lomandra laxa_ or related species – for a start towards identifying to species .
Lomandra laxa
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
24 Jul 2025
A place to start checking genera and species: _Schoenus_ genus !
(Not in the _Lepidosperma_ genus).
Lepidosperma laterale

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