Cyperus bulbosus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus bulbosus Vahl

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cyperus andrewsii C.B.Clarke (taxonomic synonym)
Cyperus bulbosus Vahl var. bulbosus (nomenclatural synonym)
Cyperus bulbosus var. elatior Kük. (taxonomic synonym)
Cyperus subulatus var. confertus Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (19), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (2), Nano_2011 (2), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 91 records in 19 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 (3); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011; White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.4 mm (1.3-1.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.57 mm (0.5-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 0.65 mm (0.5-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (4) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; SAH_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 (1); grey (2); red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (4); tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); insect (1); wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); hydrochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); birds (1); water (2); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (2); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1); vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1); rhizome (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Metcalfe_2020_1]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2); stem_tuber (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.19 mg (0.19-0.19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.24 m (0.08-0.4 m) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_1	16	19	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	7	11	N. 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/.
SAH_2023	5	6	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	2	2	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-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/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.