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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

24 Feb 2025

In left edge middle of the first photograph here, at full resolution,
please refer to the spikelets visible and identifiying this species Carex fascicularis .

Carex fascicularis

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

24 Feb 2025

Please also see some more information here in VicFlora (some more up to date, in this less out of date information, than NSW PlantNet at the moment).:
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/ee5496e9-6145-4d6b-8179-afb68bcd67f5

Especially the culms width of, quotation: " ... 3–7(–10) mm wide ... " .
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Lepidosperma sieberi

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

23 Feb 2025

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.) .

Lepidosperma sieberi

MatthewFrawley wrote:

23 Feb 2025

Might have to go back, lol.

Lepidosperma sieberi

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

23 Feb 2025

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
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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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Lepidosperma sieberi