Fimbristylis depauperata
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Family Cyperaceae
Taxonomy: Fimbristylis depauperata R.Br.
Synonyms: 19 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Fimbristylis depauperata R.Br. var. depauperata (nomenclatural synonym)
- Fimbristylis depauperata var. chillagoensis Domin (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Fimbristylis depauperata var. plurispiculata Domin (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Fimbristylis depauperata var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Fimbristylis dichotoma f. depauperata (R.Br.) Ohwi (nomenclatural synonym)
- Fimbristylis dichotoma subsp. depauperata (R.Br.) J.Kern (nomenclatural synonym)
- Fimbristylis diphylla var. depauperata (R.Br.) C.B.Clarke (nomenclatural synonym)
- Fimbristylis diphylla var. spirostachya (F.Muell. ex Benth.) C.B.Clarke (taxonomic synonym)
- Fimbristylis parviflora R.Br. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Fimbristylis sp. (Westlake P.K.Latz 4550A) (taxonomic synonym)
- Fimbristylis spirostachya F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Iria depauperata (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Iria spirostachya (Benth.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Iriha depauperata Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Iriha spirostachya Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Scirpus depauperata Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Scirpus depauperatus (R.Br.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Scirpus parviflora Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
- Scirpus parviflorus (R.Br.) Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 47 records in 12 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): 1.3 mm (1.1-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_2]
- 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
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2); tussock (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyynnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.38 m (0.1-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 18 | 18 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| NTH_2023 | 5 | 7 | 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. |
| Metcalfe_2020_1 | 3 | 3 | D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020. |
| 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/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 2 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. 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_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |