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Carex umbricola

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex umbricola K.L.Wilson

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Carex riparia (R.Br.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Uncinia riparia R.Br. (replaced synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 33 records in 8 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): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.7 mm (3.5-6 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.45 mm (1.4-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.45 mm (1.4-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (2); utricle (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); yellow (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 501.35 mm2 (501.35-501.35 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rhizomatous (1); spreading (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.82 mg (1.82-1.82 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6.5-6.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.6-1.6 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_2023813VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Jordan_200177G. 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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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/.
Mokany_201511K. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.