Paluma Range National Park, coastal section.
Photo 3 - Diplacrum pygmaeum and Drosera burmannii.
Rare in Victoria, Muehlenbeckia diclina subsp. 1 is one of two subspecies of Muehlenbeckia diclina. https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/fd6d15b4-24c5-49fd-898e-aa22747cebe3
ALA use the name Muehlenbeckia diclina subsp. Gippsland.
At this site the plant grows along approx 200m of roadside (mostly on down slope side, but a few up on embankment)
Rare in Victoria, Muehlenbeckia diclina subsp. 1 (Slender Lignum) is one of two subspecies of Muehlenbeckia diclina. https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/fd6d15b4-24c5-49fd-898e-aa22747cebe3
ALA use the name Muehlenbeckia diclina subsp. Gippsland. This plant and others nearby are vigorously regrowing post fire (burnt March 2019).
Nut obovoid to globose, 1.3–2.2 mm long, 0.9–1.5 mm diam., strongly rugose, dull, yellowish to mid-brown, with papillose base and paler papillose and hispid apex. Sheath pale to mid-brown with reddish tinges, dull.
Previously to Jervis Bay
GBIF data record 6 Gahnia species in the region, but this appears the best match to other posts on iNat.
This is the 3rd time I have run across this cryptic little sedge in escarpment bogs (this one being at 920m elevation). The first time I sent a specimen to Sydney RBG who ID'd it as O. distichus. It appears to be uncommon, although hard to spot among taller sedges.