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Cyperus flavidus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus flavidus Retz.

Synonyms: 15 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyperus globosus All. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus globosus var. nilagirica C.B.Clarke (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus globosus var. nilagiricus (Hochst. ex Steud.) C.B.Clarke (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus globosus var. stricta Baker (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus globosus var. strictus (Lam.) Baker (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus hakonensis Franch. & Sav. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus nilagiricus Hochst. ex Steud. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus strictus Lam. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus vulgaris Sieber ex Kunth (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pycreus flavidus (Retz.) T.Koyama (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pycreus globosus Rchb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pycreus globosus Rchb. var. globosus (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pycreus globosus var. nilagiricus (Hochst. ex Steud.) Domin (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Pycreus globosus var. strictus (Lam.) Domin (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Pycreus globosus var. typicus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyperus flavescens L. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic (presumed extinct)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (16), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (8), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 70 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): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (0.8-1.2 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.4-0.6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.4-0.6 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • 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): black (2); brown (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_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 (3); herb (2); tussock (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1); therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_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 (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): yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.13 mg (0.06-0.2 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Metcalfe_2020_11316D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
NHNSW_202358N. 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_202358VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. 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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.