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Sighting 4472864

Juncus fockei

A Rush at Lake George, NSW

Juncus fockei at Lake George, NSW - 1 Mar 2023 11:17 AM
Juncus fockei at Lake George, NSW - 1 Mar 2023 11:17 AM
Juncus fockei at Lake George, NSW - 1 Mar 2023 11:17 AM
Juncus fockei at Lake George, NSW - 1 Mar 2023 11:17 AM
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Juncus fockei 2 Mar 2023 JaneR

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2 comments

Tapirlord wrote:
   2 Mar 2023
Nice one Jane, what says J.fockei about this one as opposed to J.prismatocarpus to you?
JaneR wrote:
   2 Mar 2023
that was tricky !
I did a word-by-word comparison of the two species descriptions in Vic Flora. The only characters are number of stamens (3 or 6, and not available) and whether leaves are uni-tubular or multi-tubular (also not available). What swung it was the long-sharpness, the clustering, and the outer tepals in J. prismatocrpus are sometimes curved at tip. But ID could easily have gone the other way. I hadn't realised these two were so similar until this afternoon: descriptions are near identical.
Happy to change if you think its J. prismatocarpus.

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Additional information

  • 10cm to 30cm Plant height
  • True In flower

Species information

  • Juncus fockei Scientific name
  • A Rush Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1230.91m Recorded at altitude
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