Which grassland species are you particularly interested in? Why?

Firstly, I’m interested in the grasses themselves, and making sure they’re properly named. But my job requires me to take a particular interest in the rare plants that occur there – for example, Spiny Rice-flower, and this overlaps well with my particular interest in rare plants generally. I’m currently looking into naming what I think is an unnamed species of Goodenia from grasslands of northern Victoria. I’ve checked hundreds of pressed specimens in both the Melbourne and Sydney herbarium collections so I now have a pretty good idea of its natural range, but it seems pretty clear that it’s now quite a rare species, although historically it was much commoner.

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