Carex sp. Flaccida (S.T.Blake 7398)
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Family Cyperaceae
Taxonomy: Carex sp. Flaccida (S.T.Blake 7398) Australian National Herbarium
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Carex austroflaccida K.L.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
- Uncinia flaccida S.T.Blake (taxonomic synonym)
- Uncinia tenella var. robustior Kük. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (10), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 51 records in 9 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 424.12 mm2 (424.12-424.12 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); tussock (1) [sources: Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.41 mg (3.05-3.92 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 4.36 mm (3.98-4.75 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.68 mm (1.66-1.7 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
- seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 20 | 20 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| ANBG_2019 | 6 | 10 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| Jordan_2001 | 7 | 7 | G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Mokany_2015 | 1 | 1 | K. 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |