Dapsilanthus ramosus

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Family Restionaceae

Taxonomy: Dapsilanthus ramosus (R.Br.) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leptocarpus ramosus R.Br. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 26 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 0.65 mm (0.5-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.35 mm (0.3-0.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnyyyyyyny (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.2 mm (0.2-0.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	9	12	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.