Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes


Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes

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21 min ago
Juncus ... . –for a start towards identification of the species.

Unverified Rush, Sedge or Mat Rush
28 May 2025
Thank you Michael Predavec.
No teeth on the leaves' tips, rules out (disproves) the identification of _Lomandra longifolia_ in the strict sense.
While these plants obviously identify in the group of many different spp. related to, _Lomandra longifolia_ in the strict sense.

For the short term of days–weeks until my investigation of Lomandra spp. in this group, gets done, as time permits,
I have provisionally confirmed this to _Lomandra_ sp. . (Deliberately ignoring 'wildthings' ignoring all our work so far done here.)


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@wildthings ?

Lomandra sp.
28 May 2025
Thank you @JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 ! In answer to your question - no teeth on the tips. I'll have a look through some of Jian Wang's work as suggested. Many thanks - Martin

Lomandra sp.
27 May 2025
Now i am noticing in these two added close-up photographs:
Less obvious, weathered old taller fertile material remains – of the taller male inflorescences? (inflorescences meaning: compound flowering structures)
Rather than, the obvious to see old remains of the fruiting female infructesences .
(infructesences meaning: compound fruiting structures) .


Also, Martin Predavec and any of you reading here,
like going deeper into the many Lomandra species in NSW and Qld,
you may enjoy the 'light reading' of awesome Jian Wang ter, Qld Herbarium Brisbane based botanist:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jian-Wang-143

He, obviously, keeps working hard, doing high quality systematic science,
including much field work and publishing many new species descriptions,
to revise all the species concepts, their taxonomy and names (nomenclature) of the whole Lomandra genus across Au, –or at least across eastern Au so far.
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Lomandra sp.
27 May 2025
In your first hand observations please, do the leaves' tips have any teeth ?
(Not so easy to focus photograph the leaves' tips – the reason i didn't ask fo that too).
(Perhaps multiple leaves' tips layed flat on a contrasting surface and macro-photographed if possible and not too difficult)
Your description of first hand observation may provide better information than photographs of the leaves' tips, anyway.

I see two leaves' tips in low–resolution–detail in the first photograph.

Lomandra sp.
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