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Unidentified Grass at Charleys Forest, NSW

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Poaceae (family) Grassman 14 Mar 2023
Poaceae (family) MichaelMulvaney 13 Feb 2023
Carex inversa MichaelMulvaney 12 Feb 2023
Unverified arjay 10 Feb 2023

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10 comments

   10 Feb 2023
Could be Lomandra obliqua but a bit of a guess
   10 Feb 2023
I wouldn't have thought it was a lomandra but will check it out. Nope it isn't that.
   10 Feb 2023
@natureguy I am glad you thought Lomandra obliqua because that was my first impression. I'm not very confident though.
   12 Feb 2023
Sorry I am not very confident about my suggested ID - but was best I could come up with
   12 Feb 2023
I'm thinking its a grass: it has a long pale vein down the centre of the leaf.
it also looks stunted
   13 Feb 2023
Yep it is a grass. No idea if it is stunted. Most other grasses around it are most definitely not stunted. I had just never seen that particular grass before so was somewhat puzzled. And my grasses book doesn't help at all.
   14 Feb 2023
Should we mark this one as inconclusive then?
   14 Feb 2023
I thought I would wait until @Grassman had looked at it
   14 Mar 2023
I agree with @MattM, the photo is way too small to see any real detail and this is a depauperate specimen for ID. I'd say it a grass, but not tempted to go any further. Differences in appearance across the plant may suggest its infected with a virus.
   14 Mar 2023
The plant was small. Has never got any bigger. I would say definitely a grass. It may be infected with something although none of the obvious signs of disease. The parts that appeared to be seed heads have now vanished. I have suspected it to be an imported plant given it was beside a vehicle track and that I haven't seen any of it anywhere else. But it also might just be something that liked three years of sogginess after some years of bone dry. And I wasn't observant enough to notice it or any friends.

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