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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. The Herbarium team, working with the Biodiversity Information Office, now have the Nomos-hosted WACensus in production, and we will begin to update the flora and fungi for WA within the system soon. The Specify project team continues to test and streamline the new collections management system, and we expect this to be online in October. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Thursday, 1 October 2026 +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.