Tricoryne elatior

Yellow Rush Lily at Macgregor, ACT

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	Tricoryne elatior	16 Dec 2024	JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
	Unverified	16 Dec 2024	Jennybach

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Prostrate or spreading plant with delicate soft fine green branches/runners in semi shade amongst a variety of bushes and trees

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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

16 Dec 2024

Botanical Scholarly Literature References:

• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:  
PlantNET (The NSW Plant Information Network System).
 Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney.
*Tricoryne elatior* R.Br.  → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tricoryne~elatior .  
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Jennybach wrote:

16 Dec 2024

Thank you Jason. I was misled by the length and prostrate look of the stems. Perhaps growing in that shady bushy area led to that etiolated appearance.

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

16 Dec 2024

Yep . This makes sense for us both ! – shade makes etiolation in sun loving herbaceous foliage, vigorously growing, ground plants .

I'm having sightings of this and more species since the late 1980s when i lived in SE. Melb., so i've seen many within this species natural populations' genetics variations .
Thus:
• the flowers including the stamens including their hairs placements and forms,
• buds of flowers with a tepal(s)' lobe at their base,
• finished flowers in which the tepals spiral up,
• of course the nearly unique pattern of the foliage .
– provide me experience–based, field spotting check features,
which i used checking this sighting's photographs as well – especially shown in your second photograph here .

Remembering the importance of the differences you recognised –here etiolation in shade for this sun lover plant– ;
the same recognition of patterns' nuances provides us each the awareness and knowledge to sight new records and even new species to Eu–Au botany (especially in northern Au and PNG and so on,
where many Eu–Au botanically undescribed plants' species occur . ) .

Jennybach wrote:

16 Dec 2024

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4 - 15 Abundance
15 Dec 2024 02:43 PM Recorded on
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Jennybach Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lilies & Irises Plants

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Less than 10cm Plant height

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Tricoryne elatior Scientific name
Yellow Rush Lily Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 909m Recorded at altitude
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Tricoryne elatior

Yellow Rush Lily at Macgregor, ACT

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