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The description is based on the full range of variation seen in this species. The flowers 
of the only New Guinean collection fall at the upper end of the size range, with tepals 
about 3 mm long, the anthers are about 0.6 mm long and the beak on the capsule about 
1 mm long. Its culms are of middling height (3-5 cm) and the leaves exceed the culms 
by 3-6 cm. 
Selected collections examined: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: SE end Iusani grassland, SE slopes to 
Mt Victoria, 2700 m, J.R. Croft LAE 61840,6 July 1974 (A (n.v.), BISH (n.v.), BRI, CANB, E (n.v.), K, 
L (n.v.), LAE (n.v.), M (n.v.), NSW, US (n.v.)). 
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: c. 3.5 km S of Conways Gap, Wadbilliga National Park, 
D. Albrecht 1706, 27 Mar 1985 (MEL, NSW); Gloucester Tops, R. Coveny s.n., 1 Jan 1967 (NSW 94865, 
P); Corin Dam road, near Kangaroo Creek, M. Gray 5873, 18 Jan 1966 (CANB, NSW); Luthers Creek, 
c. 15 km from Jenolan Caves, Kanangra Boyd National Park, R. Coveny 17473, P. Jobson and 
M. Muasya, 11 Jan 1997 (CANB, K, NSW, NY); Diggers Creek, Kosciusko district, L. Johnson and 
E. Constable, 26 Jan 1951 (NSW 19334, P); Prussian Creek. Kosciusko National Park, J. Thompson 2455 
p.p., 24 Jan 1976 (AD, BRI, CBG, CHR, HO, K, L, MEL, MO, NSW); NE edge of Bald Rock dome. 
Bald Rock National Park, K. Wilson 6962, 27 Nov 1986 (BRI, HO, NSW). 
Victoria: Jimmys Creek, Grampians road, A. Beauglehole 16432, 12 Dec 1967 (MEL, NSW); Lake 
Catani, Mt Buffalo National Park, E. Canning 1789, 15 Jan 1969 (CANB, NSW); Cumberland Falls 
road, E of Marysville on Main Divide, L. Johnson 7671 and A. Johnson, 24 Apr 1973 (NSW); Upper 
Delegate River, near Bidwell, R. Melville 2955, N. Wakefield and E. Hunter, 19 Jan 1953 (K, NSW). 
Tasmania: Scotts Peak Road E Fawcett Creek, D. and A. Ratkowsky s.n., 25 Feb 1974 (HO, NSW 
276209) of Lake Pedder, W. Curtis s.n., 20 Feb 1970 (HO, NSW 276213); Mt Wellington, D. Ratkowsky 
JS 111 and A. Ratkowsky, 4 Jan 1974 (NSW); junction of Scotts Peak road and Condominium Creek, 
South West National Park, P. Short 1798, 21 Jan 1983 (MEL, NSW); Douglas Creek, just N of Arm 
River Track crossing. Cradle Mtn-Lake St Clair N.P, K. Wilson 8308 a, 24 Mar 1992 (HO, MEL, MO, 
NSW). 
2. Juncus wallichianus Laharpe 
(Laharpe 1825: 51 [1827:139]) 
/. prismatocarpus [var. leschenaultii] subvar. P unitubulosus Buchenau (Buchenau 1890:311). 
Type citation: 'envoye du Napaul, par M. Wallich, a M. le professeur De Candolle'. 
Type: Nepal, Walliclt, 1821; holo LAU?; probable iso G, TI (n.v.), W (hb. Buchenau ex 
hb. E. Meyer). No number is cited for the Wallich collection but it is apparently a sheet 
of Wallich 8999 (accepted as such by Buchenau (1885: 205, 1890: 312, 486) and 
J.F. Veldkamp, pers. comm.). One sheet is in the general herbarium at G, labelled as 
'Herbier de Candolle' and determined by Buchenau in 1884 as '/. wallichianus Laharpe 
specimen authenticum'. Another sheet of this collection is the type of J. indicus (q.v. below). 
?J. sinensis J. Gay ex Laharpe (Laharpe 1825: 49 [1827: 137]). Type citation: 'la Chine 
(Staunton, in herb. Lambert et DC.) et le Japon ( Thutiberg in hb. De Less.) ... (V.s.sp. in 
herb. DC. et De Lessert.)'. Types: China, Staunton; syn G (n.v.), P. Japan, Thunberg; syn 
G (n.v.). We have not seen the syntypes apart from one sheet of Staunton in P that is a 
possible isosyntype, and that is of /. leschenaultii. However, from the description, 
/. sinensis seems to fit within J. zoallichianus, a view supported by its inclusion (with 
some doubt, owing to the poor specimens) by Buchenau (1906: 182) as a synonym 
under J. prismatocarpus subvar. unitubulosus. 
J. monticola Steud. (Steudel 1855:301). Type citation: 'Hb. Hohenkr. nr. 951. hr montibus 
Nilagiri Ind. or. (Japon ? Hrbr. Goering nr. 136 sect. II).' Type: India: in montibus 
Nilagiri, R.F. Hohettacker PI. Indiae ... 951, 1851; lecto (here chosen) P; isolecto K, L, P, W. 
The Goering collection is cited in brackets and with a question mark, so it is 
appropriate to lectotypify the name on the Hohenacker collection. In Steudel's 
