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Fimbristylis subaristata

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Fimbristylis subaristata Benth.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bulbostylis sp. (White Mountains R.J.Cumming+ 19025) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bulbostylis sp. White Mountains (R.J.Cumming+ 19025) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Fimbristylis subaristata Benth. var. subaristata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Fimbristylis subaristata var. glaucina Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Iria subaristata (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Iriha subaristata Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_1 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 25 records in 8 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 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.15 m (0.1-0.2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Metcalfe_2020_145D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
Wenk_202224E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.