Grasses
Good references for local grass species:
Fact Sheets from Grasses of Australia
For example, Themeda triandra, Kangaroo Grass
And Rytidosperma, Wallaby Grasses, by species
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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Discussion
waltraud
wrote:
25 Sep 2025
I think this is Redleg Grass which I direct seeded in the area (along with Speargrass and Wallaby grass).
Bothriochloa macra
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
20 Sep 2025
Please refer to this APNI–APC page:
https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/names?product=APNI&tree.id=&name=Sporobolus+diand&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&max=100&display=apni&search=true
Quotation: "
Text:
A common weed in Malesia and Asia, but as yet not collected in Australia.
The name Sporobolus diandrus was formerly used in Australia to include species now regarded as separate (S. laxus and S. sessilis), differing in the degree of nakedness at the base of the inflorescence branches.
Sporobolus laxus has a longer naked zone and S. sessilis has spikelets to the base of the inflorescence branch.
" .
This states that this sighting most likely identifies to _Sporobolus sessilis_ or _Sporobolus laxus_
(and _Sporobolus diander_ / _diandrus_ does not really occur in this continent Au).
https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/names?product=APNI&tree.id=&name=Sporobolus+diand&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&max=100&display=apni&search=true
Quotation: "
Text:
A common weed in Malesia and Asia, but as yet not collected in Australia.
The name Sporobolus diandrus was formerly used in Australia to include species now regarded as separate (S. laxus and S. sessilis), differing in the degree of nakedness at the base of the inflorescence branches.
Sporobolus laxus has a longer naked zone and S. sessilis has spikelets to the base of the inflorescence branch.
" .
This states that this sighting most likely identifies to _Sporobolus sessilis_ or _Sporobolus laxus_
(and _Sporobolus diander_ / _diandrus_ does not really occur in this continent Au).
Sporobolus sessilis
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
19 Sep 2025
@PEdwards Good morning !
Please notice that you have here duplicated this Sighting: # 4697913 .
And have here added this sedge genus and species sighting within the wrong sub-category of: Grasses .
And have here used the name: _Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. synonymous with
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ (R.Br.) Domin .
In your view which of these two synonyms has currency?
Have you read, studied and formed a view of this scholarly taxonomy update? :
• Larridon, I., Zuntini, A.R., Barrett, R.L., Wilson, K.L., Bruhl, J.J., Goetghebeur, P., Baker, W.J., Brewer, G.E., Epitawalage, N., Fairlie, I., Forest, F., Sabino Kikuchi, I.A.B., Pokorny, L., Semmouri, I., Spalink, D., Simpson, D.A., Muasya, A.M. & Roalson, E.H. (2021 January 4)
Resolving generic limits in Cyperaceae tribe Abildgaardieae using targeted sequencing.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 196 : 163–187 .
I have not read this due to busy on other priorities .
The Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria still has to get around to reaching a collective view on these name changes,
hence APC(–APNI) at the moment recognises _Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. as the accepted name while APC(–APNI) has documented the change from the above reference to _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
The Flora of NSW online PlantNet has accepted the name _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
While in the 1993 printed Flora of NSW this species had the name _Abildgaardia vaginata_ .
References:
• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025): Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
_Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/56037/api/apni-format
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ (R.Br.) Domin → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/96434/api/apni-format
.
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fimbristylis~vaginata
.
All the best now,
Jason Stewart .
Please notice that you have here duplicated this Sighting: # 4697913 .
And have here added this sedge genus and species sighting within the wrong sub-category of: Grasses .
And have here used the name: _Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. synonymous with
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ (R.Br.) Domin .
In your view which of these two synonyms has currency?
Have you read, studied and formed a view of this scholarly taxonomy update? :
• Larridon, I., Zuntini, A.R., Barrett, R.L., Wilson, K.L., Bruhl, J.J., Goetghebeur, P., Baker, W.J., Brewer, G.E., Epitawalage, N., Fairlie, I., Forest, F., Sabino Kikuchi, I.A.B., Pokorny, L., Semmouri, I., Spalink, D., Simpson, D.A., Muasya, A.M. & Roalson, E.H. (2021 January 4)
Resolving generic limits in Cyperaceae tribe Abildgaardieae using targeted sequencing.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 196 : 163–187 .
I have not read this due to busy on other priorities .
The Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria still has to get around to reaching a collective view on these name changes,
hence APC(–APNI) at the moment recognises _Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. as the accepted name while APC(–APNI) has documented the change from the above reference to _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
The Flora of NSW online PlantNet has accepted the name _Fimbristylis vaginata_ .
While in the 1993 printed Flora of NSW this species had the name _Abildgaardia vaginata_ .
References:
• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025): Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
_Abildgaardia vaginata_ R.Br. → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/56037/api/apni-format
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ (R.Br.) Domin → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/96434/api/apni-format
.
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
_Fimbristylis vaginata_ → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fimbristylis~vaginata
.
All the best now,
Jason Stewart .
Unverified Grass
abread111
wrote:
15 Sep 2025
I'd check this again in a while. There was a contractor spraying CNG in this area in August.
Eleusine tristachya
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