Carex archeri

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex archeri Boott

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Carex acicularis Boott (misapplied)
Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Mokany_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (7), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 68 records in 11 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (4); utricle (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2); red (2); yellow (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 439.59 mm2 (439.59-439.59 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.3-0.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (2); tussock (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): vertebrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	7	9	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
NHNSW_2023	6	7	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Mokany_2015	1	1	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.