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Cyperus sphaeroideus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Cyperus sphaeroideus L.A.S.Johnson & O.D.Evans

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyperus brevifolius f. stellulatus Valck.Sur. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cyperus brevifolius var. stellulatus (Valck.Sur.) Kük. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Kyllinga intermedia R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kyllingia intermedia R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (9), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 76 records in 14 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); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.15 mm (1-1.3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.7-0.8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: 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); graminoid_not_tussock (1); herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • 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 (1) [sources: Draper_2023; 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): yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1); vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.2 mg (0.19-0.21 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221012L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_202369N. 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_202369VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. 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.
Draper_202333J. 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.
Metcalfe_2020_133D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.