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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Lepidosperma gahnioides R.L.Barrett

Reference
Nuytsia 17:62-65, Fig. 1 (2007)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted rhizomatous, perennial, herb (sedge, with very short rhizomes), leaves 0.1-0.38 m high, culms and leaves spirodistichous. Nickel bearing rocky loam soils with gravel. Mid-slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 March 2008

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Jerramungup, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Yilgarn.