AusTraits

Eleocharis geniculata

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Eleocharis geniculata (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eleocharis capitata (L.) R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eleocharis caribaea (Rottb.) S.F.Blake (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eleocharis setacea R.Br. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Eleogenus capitatus (L.) Nees ex Mart. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eleogenus capitatus Nees (taxonomic synonym)
  • Heleocharis capitata F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Heleocharis geniculata Domin (orthographic variant)
  • Scirpus brownii Spreng. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Scirpus capitatus L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scirpus caribaeus Rottb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scirpus geniculatus L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scirpus setacea Poir. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Scirpus setaceus Poir. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (7), RBGK_2014 (1), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 45 records in 18 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 0.98 mm (0.9-1 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.6-0.8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (3); brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (5); herb (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.12 mg (0.09-0.15 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.1-0.4 m) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_202357D. 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/.
NHNSW_202344N. 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/.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
SAH_202333S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Metcalfe_2020_122D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
SAH_202222S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_201411J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.