karenwilsonau's Identifications

Common in Allocasuarina nana heath at 3 years after the 2020 fires, almost forming a "lawn" in places (photo 4). Stems are very fine, biconvex, with minutely scabrid margins. I did tease out a nut to check that it was the right shape for a Lepidosperma, and it was, but too tiny to photograph well. The bit of card behind the culms is 110x100mm, to give an idea of culm length.

Common and fruiting in Allocasuarina nana heath at 1090m elevation at 3 years after the 2020 fire. The tiny (1.5mm) nut is visible in photos 2 and 3, but not with much detail. It is trigonous and wrinkled, and on a zigzag rachis which is typical of Schoenus. The whole plant is quite grass-like in general appearance with a small tuft of basal leaves.

In snow gum woodland around the edges of a boggy creek at around 750m ASL. Distinguished from G. sieberiana (also present but less abundant) by the inflorescence being held within the leaves, not emergent above them, plus the much smaller size of the plant overall.

Among regrowth along service track to electricity pylon on top of Illawarra Escarpment above Macquarie Pass.
The club-shaped spikelets appearing to have relatively few glumes seem to point to G. sieberiana.

Among regrowth along boggy edge of service track to electricity pylon on top of Illawarra Escarpment above Macquarie Pass.

The variation in L. laterale is bewildering and distinguishing its taller forms from L. elatius is problematic, in my experience.