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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WendyEM
wrote:
8 Oct 2025
Lepidosperma semiteres has been recorded for the reserve. Other sp also listed - L. curtisiae, L. curtisiae / filiforme, L. laeve, L. laterale, L. longitudinale. plus 2 unnamed L. sp. large, L. sp. small
Lepidosperma laterale
waltraud
wrote:
7 Oct 2025
at recent eve work party with ANU students we counted 27 roos in an approxc 5Ha bit of nature reserve abutting the The Fair in the east; the roos were moving from the dam in south-east direction.
Lomandra multiflora
Tapirlord
wrote:
6 Oct 2025
Hi Hejor1, thanks for your sighting. The media you provided is missing or unclear. To help us verify this sighting, please provide additional media.
Cyperus eragrostis
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