Ammothryon grandiflorum

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Ammothryon grandiflorum (Nees ex Lehm.) R.L.Barrett, K.L.Wilson & J.J.Bruhl

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC):

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Yang_2023 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 29 records in 4 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.2-3.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (1.8-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2 mm (1.8-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nutlet (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 182 mm (20-460 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
storage_organ (categorical): caudex (2); pseudobulb (1); rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Yang_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1); fleshy_underground_organ (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Yang_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.1 m (0.7-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Yang_2023	4	4	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.