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 .
Discussion
Mike
wrote:
5 Mar 2026
This was more or less an overhead shot, so the camera made up its own mind. It looks better now I have rotated the image.
Cyperus eragrostis
JaneR
wrote:
3 Mar 2026
Both have spines, but the very obvious and long spines in this sighting fits Lomandra longifolia subsp longifolia. Your other sighting with shorter spines (actually bracts) leans towards Lomandra longifolia subsp exilis, but the leaves look too wide for subsp exilis and the few bracts evident are long like subsp longifolia.
Lomandra longifolia
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