Cyperus laxus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus laxus Lam.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cyperus diffusus Vahl (taxonomic synonym)
Cyperus sp. (Mission Beach N.Byrnes MB14) (taxonomic synonym)
Cyperus sp. Mission Beach (N.Byrnes MB14) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (6), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 20 records in 7 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2) [sources: Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: Wenk_2022]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.25 mg (0.25-0.25 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_1	3	6	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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).
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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.