Fimbristylis adjuncta
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Family Cyperaceae
Taxonomy: Fimbristylis adjuncta S.T.Blake
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), SPRAT_2025_2 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 19 records in 5 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): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 2.35 mm (2.2-2.5 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
- storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.11 m (0.07-0.15 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 7 | 9 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Metcalfe_2020_1 | 3 | 3 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| 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. |