Tasmania home to first alpine sword-sedge
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Australian botanists have described a unique new species of sedge (family Cyperaceae, which includes Papyrus and Chinese Water Chestnut) from the mist-shrouded mountains of Tasmania. Lepidosperma monticola is a small plant that is only known from the south-west of the island.