Cyperus dactylotes

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus dactylotes Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cyperus clelandii J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cyperus diphyllus Retz. (pro parte misapplied)
Cyperus gunnii Hook.f. (pro parte misapplied)

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: Catford_2014 (3), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (19), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (7), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 88 records in 17 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): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

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): 1.45 mm (1.3-1.6 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 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 (2); yellow (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 52.5 mm2 (52.5-52.5 mm2) [sources: Catford_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (6.5-6.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 5.7 mg (5.7-5.7 mg) [sources: Catford_2014]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 107.87 g/m2 (107.87-107.87 g/m2) [sources: Catford_2014]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); graminoid_not_tussock (1); herb (2); tussock (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (1); hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: 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): caespitose (1); erect (1); rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_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); 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): nnnnyyynnnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [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; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.11 mg (0.08-0.13 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2020_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.72 m (0.3-1.2 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
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.
Metcalfe_2020_1	17	19	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
NHNSW_2023	6	7	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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Catford_2014	3	3	J. A. Catford, W. K. Morris, P. A. Vesk, C. J. Gippel, and B. J. Downes. “Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion”. Diversity and Distributions 20 (2014), pp. 1084-1096. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12225.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.