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 .


Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

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1 hr ago
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
Yesterday
Perhaps _Lomandra laxa_ or related species – for a start towards identifying to species .

Lomandra laxa
Yesterday
A place to start checking genera and species: _Schoenus_ genus !
(Not in the _Lepidosperma_ genus).

Lepidosperma laterale
JaneR wrote:
Yesterday
Hi there are two species mixed in the foreground.
The tubular one that tapers to a fine tip is Tall Spike-rush Eleocharis sphacelata.
Best to keep species separated in photos of Sightings

Eleocharis sphacelata
15 Jul 2025
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Cyperus eragrostis
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