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Fimbristylis cinnamometorum

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Fimbristylis cinnamometorum (Vahl) Kunth

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Abildgaardia cinnamometorum (Vahl) Thwaites (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Fimbristylis biflora Boeckeler (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fimbristylis cyperoides R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fimbristylis cyperoides R.Br. var. cyperoides (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fimbristylis cyperoides var. cinnamometorum (Vahl) C.B.Clarke (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Iria biflora (Boeckeler) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Iria cinnamometorum (Vahl) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Iriha biflora Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Iriha cinnamometorum Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Isolepis cinnamometorum (Vahl) Roem. & Schult. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scirpus cinnamometorum Vahl (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scirpus cyperoides (R.Br.) Poir. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 43 records in 14 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); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.7-0.9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.55 mm (0.4-0.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.55 mm (0.4-0.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.3-0.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1); none (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.16 mg (0.16-0.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.4-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2023711N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Metcalfe_2020_133D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. 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_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.