Luzula meridionalis

Common Woodrush at Karabar, NSW

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Identification history

Luzula meridionalis	10 Oct 2023	Tapirlord
Luzula densiflora	10 Oct 2023	CarbonAI
Luzula flaccida	10 Oct 2023	JaneR

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four plants on a knoll: all plants here were short.

6 comments

Tapirlord wrote:

10 Oct 2023

That's a probably, difficult to seperate L.meridonalis and L.denisflora when not in flower.

Grassman wrote:

10 Oct 2023

Agree with JaneR as the peduncles are very short. Even agree with Vicflora more; densiflora, flaccida and meridionalis should all be regarded as varieties of meridionalis

Tapirlord wrote:

10 Oct 2023

Yes, I agree with that treatment also. But I'm not sure about calling this var.flaccida, I thought it was seperated based upon a lack of dense hairs along the leaf margin which this plant has.

natureguy wrote:

10 Oct 2023

If we all agree with the taxonomy there it'd probably be worth updating, we can still ID to subsp/sp. if possible but in many cases it would make things a fair bit simpler. Not convinved on the ID here, yeah I think the leaf margins of flaccida is supposed to be only sparsely hairy while this one does seem pretty hairy along that leaf margin.

JaneR wrote:

10 Oct 2023

I appreciate the discussion.

In suggesting L. flaccida, I thought I was following VicFlora which separates the subspecies by "sparsely hairy" v "densely hairy along margin (hairs mostly appearing as an unbroken marginal line)". As I didn't see an unbroken marginal line, I opted for flaccida. I also thought the colour of tepals and capsules was closer to flaccida: "yellow-ish to mid-brown".

But I'm happy to go with whatever the consensus is.

Tapirlord wrote:

18 Oct 2023

Hmmmm, that's interesting. I would've said the hairs on this one do appear like an unbroken marginal line, it's plants like Luzula flaccida (Pale Woodrush) I am treating as L.flaccida as they pretty much lack marginal hairs altogether.

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