Common Woodrush at Karabar, NSW
Identification history
| Luzula meridionalis | 10 Oct 2023 | Tapirlord | ||
| Luzula densiflora | 10 Oct 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Luzula flaccida | 10 Oct 2023 | JaneR |
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User's notes
four plants on a knoll: all plants here were short.
6 comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
10 Oct 2023
That's a probably, difficult to seperate L.meridonalis and L.denisflora when not in flower.
Grassman
wrote:
10 Oct 2023
Agree with JaneR as the peduncles are very short. Even agree with Vicflora more; densiflora, flaccida and meridionalis should all be regarded as varieties of meridionalis
Tapirlord
wrote:
10 Oct 2023
Yes, I agree with that treatment also. But I'm not sure about calling this var.flaccida, I thought it was seperated based upon a lack of dense hairs along the leaf margin which this plant has.
natureguy
wrote:
10 Oct 2023
If we all agree with the taxonomy there it'd probably be worth updating, we can still ID to subsp/sp. if possible but in many cases it would make things a fair bit simpler. Not convinved on the ID here, yeah I think the leaf margins of flaccida is supposed to be only sparsely hairy while this one does seem pretty hairy along that leaf margin.
JaneR
wrote:
10 Oct 2023
I appreciate the discussion.
In suggesting L. flaccida, I thought I was following VicFlora which separates the subspecies by "sparsely hairy" v "densely hairy along margin (hairs mostly appearing as an unbroken marginal line)". As I didn't see an unbroken marginal line, I opted for flaccida. I also thought the colour of tepals and capsules was closer to flaccida: "yellow-ish to mid-brown".
But I'm happy to go with whatever the consensus is.
In suggesting L. flaccida, I thought I was following VicFlora which separates the subspecies by "sparsely hairy" v "densely hairy along margin (hairs mostly appearing as an unbroken marginal line)". As I didn't see an unbroken marginal line, I opted for flaccida. I also thought the colour of tepals and capsules was closer to flaccida: "yellow-ish to mid-brown".
But I'm happy to go with whatever the consensus is.
Tapirlord
wrote:
18 Oct 2023
Hmmmm, that's interesting. I would've said the hairs on this one do appear like an unbroken marginal line, it's plants like Luzula flaccida (Pale Woodrush) I am treating as L.flaccida as they pretty much lack marginal hairs altogether.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.246261-35.383653
- Altitude 638.4m
- Places Karabar, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 9 Oct 2023 03:26 PM Recorded on
- JaneR Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes
Additional information
- Less than 10cm Plant height
Species information
- Luzula meridionalis Scientific name
- Common Woodrush Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1147m Recorded at altitude
- 93 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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Synonyms
Luzula meridionalis var. meridionalis
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