Carex brunnea

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex brunnea Thunb. ex Murray

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Carex gracilis R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Carex hattoriana Nakai ex Tuyama (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (23), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 50 records in 10 datasets.

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

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (2); utricle (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1); white (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 525 mm (250-800 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1); tussock (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (1); hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); tufted (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.6 mg (0.44-0.76 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_1	19	23	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
NHNSW_2023	7	9	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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.