Plants


May I highly recommend to each of you making plants' sightings here in NatureMapr, 
two top in the world, plant identification processes, guide books and references, 

by: 
excellent Ian D. Clarke (1950–) 
botanist from the National Herbarium of Vic. and Royal Botanic Gardens :

• Ian D. Clarke and Helen Lee 1925- (2019)
Name that flower.
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press .
https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8127202
ISBN: 9780522876048 .
–guides to all kinds of plants, focussed on Au and south-eastern Au, yet globally useful.
– available in both, printed paperback book and ebook.

• Ian D. Clarke (2015)
Name those grasses :
identifying grasses, sedges and rushes.
Melbourne, Victoria :
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria .
ISBN: 9780980407648 .
https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6936301
–includes grasses (Poaceae) but as said in the subtitle, not only grasses, furthermore sedges (Cyperaceae) and rushes (Restionaceae) .
– available in printed paperback book . 


All the best, 
Jason Stewart 2025 June 17th .

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Opuntia stricta
maznee wrote:
Yesterday
Great. Thanks Jason.

Unverified Other Tree
Yesterday
@maznee . Great !
When you do, you may as well take with you the Flora of NSW online PlantNet botanical key page and have yourself a go at botanically keying this tree out to species .
Here: → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Daphnandra

The reason being these closely related and superficially similar looking trees' species much more easily get botanically keyed out to species first hand in the field, rather by photographs per se.

Happy to confirm your first hand in the field results;
together with your comments about the specific question i asked above,
about the whether these leaves upper surfaces have midribs sunken, slightly raised or flush with the surface of the leaves laminas.

Unverified Other Tree
maznee wrote:
Yesterday
Thanks Jason. I’ll pop down to the creek tomorrow and look again.

Unverified Other Tree
Yesterday
I have added to NatureMapr my 2016 December photographs of clear male and female inflorescences and plants in general, sighting from heathland in Sandringham, Melb., Vic.,
here: Hypolaena fastigiata (Tassel Rope-rush)

References:

• Flora of NSW online PlantNet: 

PlantNET (The NSW Plant Information Network System).

→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Hypolaena

→ https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hypolaena~fastigiata

Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney. 


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