Sticky Sword-sedge (Lepidosperma viscidum)? Botany Bay National Park, La Perouse, southern Sydney coastline, New South Wales Dominant sedge in groundlayer of heathy shrubland/woodland on old dunes overlying sandstone.
© Tony Rodd
This species is also common on sandstone ledges where drainage is impeded, so I suspect that in this environment there is a peaty layer on the sand which likewise impedes drainage. This belongs to a complex of forms in Lepidosperma with flattened leaves and culms, in which species identification is notoriously difficult, so I am not 100% sure it is L. viscidum .
Photo taken on 1 Apr 2011
Photograph location coordinates are -33.99575:151.23921.
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