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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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
1 hr ago
@PEdwards Good morning !
Please notice that you have duplicated this sighting with a synonym here: Sighting: # 4697907 Unverified Grass .
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 duplicated this sighting with a synonym here: Sighting: # 4697907 Unverified Grass .
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 .
Lepidosperma laterale
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
1 hr ago
Hi PEdwards, thanks for your sighting. Your sighting contains multiple species. To help us verify each species, please submit the 3rd photo as a separate sighting. You can edit this sighting and click the duplicate button to make a duplicate of the original sighting.
Fimbristylis dichotoma
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
Yesterday
I presume your spelling had typos and meant: _Eleocharis philippinensis_ Svenson (1929) .
Lepidosperma laterale
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
One of the several _Chorizandra_ species for a start.
Unverified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
wrote:
15 Sep 2025
Swampy soil ?
_Lepidosperma longitudinale_ ?
_Lepidosperma longitudinale_ ?
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