Baloskion tetraphyllum subsp. meiostachyum

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Family Restionaceae

Taxonomy: Baloskion tetraphyllum subsp. meiostachyum (L.A.S.Johnson & O.D.Evans) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Restio tetraphyllus subsp. meiostachyus L.A.S.Johnson & O.D.Evans (basionym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kubiak_2009 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (2), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (42), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 72 records in 12 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): fire_killed (2); resprouts (4) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (4); tussock (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyynnnnnyyy (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.05 mg (0.05-0.05 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	42	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2023	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014	3	5	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2023	2	2	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_2023	2	2	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kubiak_2009	1	1	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.