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Lepidosperma oldfieldii

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Species of grass-like plant

Lepidosperma oldfieldii
(Fitch, 1860)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Lepidosperma
Species: L. oldfieldii
Binomial name
Lepidosperma oldfieldii
Hook.f.
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms

Lepidosperma elatius var. oldfieldii (Hook.f.) Rodway

Lepidosperma oldfieldii is a sedge (in the family Cyperaceae) that is native to Tasmania. It was first described in 1860 by Joseph Hooker.

Hooker says of the species that it is similar to L. elatius, but smaller and more slender "with a different panicle, which is very long (6-18 inches), and .... covered with fascicled chesnut-brown spikelets. ... The spikelets have a subsquarrose appearance. The edges of the culms are very scabrous, and cut severely."

References

  1. ^ Hooker, J.D. (1860). "Lepidosperma Oldfieldii". The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae. 2 (7): 91. Plate CXLVI
  2. ^ "Lepidosperma oldfieldii Hook.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
Taxon identifiers
Lepidosperma oldfieldii
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