Desmocladus laxiflorus
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Family Restionaceae
Taxonomy: Desmocladus laxiflorus (Steud.) B.G.Briggs
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Onychosepalum laxiflorum Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (12), Munroe_2019 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 31 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.95 mm (1.4-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_lanceolate (1); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); dense (1); rhizomatous (1); tufted (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 1.3 mm (1.2-1.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.15 m (0.15-0.15 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 2 | S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 2 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Yang_2023 | 2 | 2 | S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |