Carex phacota

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex phacota Spreng.

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_1 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 11 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 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_1	4	4	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.