Dapsilanthus spathaceus

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Family Restionaceae

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

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leptocarpus barbatus K.Bakker (taxonomic synonym)
Leptocarpus desertus F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptocarpus schultzii Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptocarpus schultzii Mast. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptocarpus spathaceus R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Lepyrodia sp. (Silver Plains K.Paijmans 2941) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (2), 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 15 traits from 28 records in 12 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

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]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (4); tussock (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); dense (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.23 mg (0.23-0.23 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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.
ABRS_2023	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
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.
Rice_1991	1	2	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.