Gahnia insignis

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Gahnia insignis S.T.Blake

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Fimbristylis thwaitesii Boeckeler (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (5), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 33 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.2-2.8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (1-1.3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 1.15 mm (1-1.3 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_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	7	10	N. 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/.
Benwell_2024	5	5	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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_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.