Lepidosperma urophorum, the Rapier Saw Sedge is a forest dwelling plant found in south eastern Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Often found on sandy soils near streams. It may grow to 1.5 metres high.

The specific epithet urophorum is derived from the Greek meaning "tail-bearing". Which refers to the slender inflorescence

Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...

. It is distinguished from Lepidosperma flexuosum by the flower panicle

Panicle

A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....

branchlets being straight, rather than crooked.