Lepidosperma laterale
Variable Sword Sedge at Crowther, NSW
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| Lepidosperma laterale | Tapirlord | 22 May 2025 | |
| Lepidosperma laterale | StewartJasonP | 21 May 2025 | |
| Lepidosperma (genus) | StewartJasonP | 21 May 2025 | |
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3 comments
21 May 2025
For a start a provisional identification.
Pending more work by me to identify this to species .
Pending more work by me to identify this to species .
21 May 2025
In the Flora of NSW online PlantNet botanical key,
IMHO this keys out to _Lepidosperma_laterale_ with the leaves of the narrowest width within the width–range stated in the _Lepidosperma_laterale_ key branch –quotation:
" Culms flat, or slightly convex on 1 face, or concavo-convex, 30–100 cm long, 2–8 mm wide " .
Many more species are known to occur 'hiding in plain sight' as overlooked species undescribed as yet by European–ethnocentric origin science, which nowadays does have at least clues about these many undescribed species and some scholarly publications referring to them, including those so far included in the broad sense of _Lepidosperma_laterale_ .
Ref':
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Lepidosperma
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidosperma~laterale
.
IMHO this keys out to _Lepidosperma_laterale_ with the leaves of the narrowest width within the width–range stated in the _Lepidosperma_laterale_ key branch –quotation:
" Culms flat, or slightly convex on 1 face, or concavo-convex, 30–100 cm long, 2–8 mm wide " .
Many more species are known to occur 'hiding in plain sight' as overlooked species undescribed as yet by European–ethnocentric origin science, which nowadays does have at least clues about these many undescribed species and some scholarly publications referring to them, including those so far included in the broad sense of _Lepidosperma_laterale_ .
Ref':
• Flora of NSW online PlantNet
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Lepidosperma
→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidosperma~laterale
.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.574067-34.115039
- Altitude 589.4m
- Places Crowther, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 Abundance
- 21 May 2025 09:37 AM Recorded on
- Frecko Recorded by
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Collections
- Frecko NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Lepidosperma laterale Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes Plants
Species information
- Lepidosperma laterale Scientific name
- Variable Sword Sedge Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1301.64m Recorded at altitude
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