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Cyperus haspan

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus haspan L.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyperus halpan J.Kern (orthographic variant)
  • Cyperus pulcherrimus Willd. ex Kunth (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Scirpus autumnalis L. (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (10), Kew_2019_6 (8), Metcalfe_2020_1 (18), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (9), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (3), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 76 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): 0.6 mm (0.4-0.8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (4) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; NTH_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); white (1); yellow (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (4); tussock (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1); therophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.07 mg (0.02-0.13 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Metcalfe_2020_11618D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
Kew_2019_1110Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202379N. 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/.
Kew_2019_618Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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/.
NTH_202333D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
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.