AusTraits

Carex klaphakei

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex klaphakei K.L.Wilson

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

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 29 records in 6 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
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.25 mm (2-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.62 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.62 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (2); utricle (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); grey (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.11 mg (1.11-1.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2023918N. 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/.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.