''Lepidosperma filiforme'', also known as the common rapier-sedge, is a

sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' wit ...

that occurs in coastal regions of south-eastern

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and

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/ref> Plants grow to between 0.3 and 1 metre high. The culms are smooth, rigid, terete and between 0.7 and 2 mm in diameter. The leaves are also terete and about 1 mm in diameter, with sheaths that are straw coloured or reddish. The species was formally described in 1805 by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805 based on plant material collected from

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filiforme Flora of New Zealand Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (Australia) Flora of Tasmania Poales of Australia Plants described in 1805 Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière {{Australia-plant-stub