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Cladium procerum

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cladium procerum S.T.Blake

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cladium mariscus subsp. intermedium Kük. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Machaerina procera (S.T.Blake) T.Koyama (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cladium mariscus (L.) Pohl (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Metcalfe_2020_1 (23), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 98 records in 16 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.53 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.65 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (4) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 2500 mm (2500-2500 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); graminoid_not_tussock (1); herb (3); tussock (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.43 mg (1.43-1.43 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_12023D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023913N. 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/.
RBGV_2023812VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
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.
eFLOWER_Dun_202234L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.