Carex divisa

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex divisa Huds.

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

Distribution (APC): WA, SA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (7), Kew_2019_3 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), NHNSW_2024 (9), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (11), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_1 (1), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 69 records in 17 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: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.56 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.8-2.4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.8-2.4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (3); nutlet (1); utricle (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2); red (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (5); herb (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (5) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.36 mg (0.36-2.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.6-1 m) [sources: SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	7	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024	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 December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	6	9	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_1	1	7	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_2	5	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
WAH_2022_1	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_3	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_2	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
SAH_2014	1	1	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
WAH_2023_1	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.