Common rapier-sedge | |
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(Labillardière, Tab 15) [1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Cyperaceae |
Genus: | Lepidosperma |
Species: | L. filiforme
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Binomial name | |
Lepidosperma filiforme | |
Occurrence data from AVH |
Lepidosperma filiforme, also known as the common rapier-sedge, is a sedge that occurs in coastal regions of south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. [2] [3] [4] Plants grow to between 0.3 and 1 metre high. The culms are smooth, rigid, terete and between 0.7 and 2 mm in diameter. The leaves are also terete and about 1 mm in diameter, with sheaths that are straw coloured or reddish. [3]
The species was formally described in 1805 by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805 based on plant material collected from Tasmania. [2] [1]