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JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
3 Oct 2024
Checking this sighting by again working this new *Juncus ...* sighting through this Flora of NSW online PlantNet botanical key to *Juncus* spp. :
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Juncus .
Appears on first look to ID to *Juncus planifolius* .

Edit:
Confirmed *Juncus planifolius* .

References (in brief, without full citations):

Flora of NSW online PlantNet :
• *Juncus* genus page incluging botanical key to *Juncus* spp. in NSW :
https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Juncus
• *Juncus planifolius* : https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Juncus~planifolius
Juncus planifolius
MatthewFrawley wrote:
19 Apr 2024
Yeah, cool, I thought I'd seen this before in Van Diemen's Land, I didn't know it also grows up here on the mainland.
Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus
Tapirlord wrote:
19 Apr 2024
Very cool
Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus
Tapirlord wrote:
13 Oct 2023
Culms are the wrong shape for L.laterale.
Lepidosperma urophorum
Grassman wrote:
12 Oct 2023
Don't think there's enough detail to distinguish whether urophorum or laterale, but its one of them; tend towards the former due to spreading of branches and spikelets appressing to branches
Lepidosperma urophorum

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