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placement in the arrangement of Australian species given by Nelmes (1944); this 
arrangement needs re-assessment in the light of more recent studies. 
Epithet: The species is named after Mr Van Klaphake, who has collected this and 
many other species of monocots in the Sydney region. 
Specimens seen: New South Wales: Central Tablelands: Rhododendron Gardens. Blackheath, 
Klaphake 373, Nov 1991 (NSW), 549, Mar 1992 (NSW, CHR, NY); Yarramundi Road, 1 km E of 
Mt Werong turn-off, Klaphake 1032, Apr 1994 (NSW, CANB); Hanging Rock Swamp, 4 km NW of 
Penrose railway station, Klaphake 805, Mar 1993 (NSW, K); Hanging Rock Swamp, Goddcn 211 & 
Wilson, Apr 1995 (NSW, GENT, L, MEL, US). 
Carex buxbaumii 
C. buxbaumii Wahlenb. subsp. buxbaumii is a European taxon that has become 
naturalised in a few localities in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. In New 
South Wales, it was recently found for the first time, in the Cathedral Rock National 
Park between Ebor and Armidale. It can be slotted into the 'Flora of New South 
Wales' treatment as Carex species no. 11a, following C. broumii Tuckerman and 
preceding C. maculata Boott. This does not reflect a close relationship to either of 
those species but rather its placement in the arrangement of Australian species given 
by Nelmes (1944), where it was given under the name C. canescens L. However, that 
name applies to another species (native in Australia) that used to be called C. curia 
Gooden., as explained by Toivonen (1981) when he lectotypified C. canescens L. 
Only the type subspecies of C. buxbaumii has been introduced into Australia. Most 
Australian specimens have rather paler male and female bracts than European 
specimens but are otherwise similar. The utricle is illustrated in Wilson 1994: fig. 701. 
Rhizome short; shoots loosely tufted. Culms erect, triquetrous, smooth below, 
scabrous above, 25-70 cm long, c. 1.3 mm diam. Leaves shorter than or scarcely 
exceeding culms, 1.5-3 mm wide. Inflorescence erect, 4-10 cm long, with 2-5 spikes 
solitary at nodes; lowest involucral bract shorter than to exceeding inflorescence. 
Spikes sessile, ± contiguous, spreading slightly at maturity, 0.7-2.5 cm long; 
uppermost spike gynaecandrous; lower spikes female. Male and female bracts 
('glumes') acuminate to acute, often long-mucronate (mucro to 1.5 mm long), red- 
brown to dark red-brown with paler midrib; female bracts 3-6 mm long. Utricles 
ovoid to narrow-ellipsoid, nerveless or indistinctly nerved, 3.0-4.5 mm long, 
c. 2 mm diam., minutely papillose, pale green to brown; beak a minute notch to 
0.2 mm long. Style 3-fid. Nut obovate to elliptical in outline. 
Occasionally naturalised on swampy flats at higher altitudes; in N.S.W. in Cathedral 
Rock National Park. *NT; *Vic., *Tas.; native of Europe. 
Specimens seen: New South Wales: Northern Tablelands: c. 6 km W of Ebor-Armidalc road on 
road to Round Mountain, Cathedral Rock National Park, James 1383 & McCune, Nov 1992. 
Victoria: Snorvy plains between tlie Cabongra and Bogong Range Isic], Mueller, Dec 1854 (MEL 
226617); snowy wet plains between the Cabangra and Boyong Mountains [sic|, Mueller, — (K); 
Cobboras Mountains, Mueller, — (K); below Red Bank Plain on the upper Victoria River, 28 km 
NW of Omeo (direct), Scarlett 80-120, Mar 1980 (NSW ex LTB); Rocky Plain (approx. 15 km WNW 
of Suggan Buggan), Wakefield 3024, Jan 1949 (MEL). 
Tasmania: Western Mountains, 3500 ft [1070 m], Rodivay, Dec 1908 (K). 
Carex raleighii 
C. raleighii Nelmes is a slender native species, found at high altitude in New South 
Wales (only one record) and Victoria, and also in Tasmania. The opportunity is 
taken to provide a description of this species in the format of the 'Flora of New 
South Wales' (it was included in the published key). It can be slotted into that 
