Eleocharis retroflexa
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Family Cyperaceae
Taxonomy: Eleocharis retroflexa (Poir.) Urb.
Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cyperus setaceus Retz. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eleocharis chaetaria Roem. & Schult. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eleocharis recurvata Nees (taxonomic synonym)
- Eleocharis retroflexa (Poir.) Urb. subsp. retroflexa (nomenclatural synonym)
- Eleocharis retroflexa subsp. chaetaria (Roem. & Schult.) T.Koyama (taxonomic synonym)
- Heleocharis retroflexa Urb. (orthographic variant)
- Scirpus retroflexa Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_1 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (5), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 19 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 0.65 mm (0.6-0.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): white (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
- storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 4 | 5 | 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/. |
| 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/. |
| Metcalfe_2020_1 | 2 | 2 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 2 | 2 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |