Fuirena umbellata

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Fuirena umbellata Rottb.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Fuirena umbellata Rottb. var. umbellata (nomenclatural synonym)
Fuirena umbellata var. pilosa Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Fuirena umbellata var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (11), Kew_2019_6 (14), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 73 records in 16 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.1 mm (0.8-1.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.6-0.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (6-17 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.1 mg (0.04-0.19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.98 m (0.4-1.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Kew_2019_6	1	14	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_1	1	11	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2023	8	11	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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	9	10	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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/.
ATRP_2020	2	2	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.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.