Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

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May I highly recommend to each of you making plants' sightings here in NatureMapr,
one of the top in the world, plant identification processes, guide books and references,

by:
excellent Ian D. Clarke (1950–)
botanist from the National Herbarium of Vic. and Royal Botanic Gardens :

(2015)
Name those grasses :
identifying grasses, sedges and rushes.
Melbourne, Victoria :
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria .
ISBN: 9780980407648 .
https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6936301
–includes grasses (Poaceae) but as said in the subtitle, not only grasses, furthermore sedges (Cyperaceae) and rushes (Restionaceae) .
– available in printed paperback book .

All the best,
Jason Stewart 2025 June 17th .

Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

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Eleocharis sphacelata (Tall Spike-rush) at Deer Vale, NSW - 22 Jul 2025 by jason_john

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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

2 hrs ago

I have checked the sources, predominantly from excellent Jian Wang Queensland Herbarium,
and confirmed this identification.
Well known and recorded in this area .

For more information refer to these sources' and their references therein:

• Jian Wang, Ph.D. University of Queensland, Senior Botanist at Queensland Government.
ResearchGate – regularly publishing Lomandra spp. new formal descriptions in various scholarly journals:
→ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jian-Wang-143
.

• Wang Jian (2019) Flowering plants of Queensland: Species of _Lomandra_ .
→ https://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/9297
.

Lomandra laxa

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

Perhaps _Lomandra laxa_ or related species – for a start towards identifying to species .

Lomandra laxa

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:

Yesterday

A place to start checking genera and species: _Schoenus_ genus !
(Not in the _Lepidosperma_ genus).

Lepidosperma laterale

JaneR wrote:

Yesterday

Hi there are two species mixed in the foreground.
The tubular one that tapers to a fine tip is Tall Spike-rush Eleocharis sphacelata.
Best to keep species separated in photos of Sightings

Eleocharis sphacelata

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

15 Jul 2025

Survey import.

Cyperus eragrostis