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Cyperus conicus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus conicus (R.Br.) Boeckeler

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyperus conicus (R.Br.) Boeckeler var. conicus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cyperus conicus var. glaucinus (Boeckeler) Kük. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus glaucinus Boeckeler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Mariscus conicus R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Mariscus glaucinus Domin (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (22), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 74 records in 13 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); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.8 mm (1.8-1.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_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): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); graminoid_not_tussock (1); herb (2); tussock (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): geophyte (1); hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyynnnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [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 (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; WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.54 mg (0.54-0.54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_11722D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
White_20202121M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_202378N. 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/.
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/.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.