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Eriocaulon cinereum

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Family Eriocaulaceae

Taxonomy: Eriocaulon cinereum R.Br.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eriocaulon A87689 Arid Zone (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon ciliiflorum F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon cinereum R.Br. var. cinereum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum (Siebold & Zucc.) T.Koyama ex C.E.Chang (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum T.C.Huang (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum T.Koyama (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon sieboldianum Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon sieboldtianum Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon sp. Arid Zone (D.Schunke 28/Aug/90) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon sp. G (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriocaulon sp. G Kimberley Flora (K.F.Kenneally 11374E) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (19), Kew_2019_1 (4), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 60 records in 11 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): monoecious (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.44 mm (0.16-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (2); linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.01 mg (0.01-0.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.31 mm (0.2-0.43 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.24 mm (0.15-0.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.11 m (0.02-0.18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231419Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023711D. 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_200648A. 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.
WAH_2022_236Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_214Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202222D. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.