Lepidosperma (genus)

A Sword Sedge at Noorinbee, VIC

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Identification history

Lepidosperma (genus)	19 May 2025	JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
Lepidosperma laterale	30 Jan 2025	Tapirlord
Lepidosperma laterale	26 Jan 2025	CarbonAI
Lepidosperma (genus)	26 Jan 2025	JasonPStewartNMsnc2016

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Healthy ca. 5 plants on the side of the small creek (and near the road), under the canopy of Eucalyptus elata, Acacia mearnsii and so on . *Lepidosperma laterale* or *Lepidosperma viscidum* or another *Lepidosperma* species ? Note the leaves margins and lamina ≠ribbed venation, in photograph 4 . 2017 February 22nd 9:29–9:33 am .

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Tapirlord wrote:

30 Jan 2025

i would say L.laterale. The culm margins seem smooth rather than scabrous which would eliminate L.viscidum. The infloresence seems to long for L.gunnii which I was also thinking about.

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

30 Jan 2025

Thank you Ciaran .

Please once more check leaves' margins' glands, scabrosities, (loosely : 'bumps')? – in the fourth photograph at full resolution, the middle where it has focussed most .

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Location information

Places Noorinbee, VIC

Sighting information

5 Abundance
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Additional information

30cm to 1 metre Plant height

Species information

Lepidosperma (genus) Scientific name
A Sword Sedge Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1127.76m Recorded at altitude
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