AusTraits

Carex demissa

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex demissa Hornem.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Carex flava L. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 9 traits from 9 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 439.59 mm2 (439.59-439.59 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.05 m (0.05-0.05 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Mokany_201522K. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.