Hypolaena exsulca

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Family Restionaceae

Taxonomy: Hypolaena exsulca R.Br.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Calorophus exsulcus (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Calostrophus exsulcus F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Caustis squamellata C.B.Clarke (taxonomic synonym)
Hypolaena esenbeckii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Hypolaena fastigiata Nees (taxonomic synonym)
Restio clavatus Nees (taxonomic synonym)
Restio clavatus R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Restio vacillans Steud. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (11), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_1 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (6), Yang_2023 (1), vanderMoezel_1987 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 71 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; Yang_2023; vanderMoezel_1987]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.85 mm (2.2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_1]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2023_1]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (5); herb (3); tussock (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); dense (1); erect (1); rhizomatous (3); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): proteoid_root (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1); ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.46 mg (5.46-5.46 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.6-1.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.9 mm (0.9-0.9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.55 m (0.25-0.75 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	15	16	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	9	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Wheeler_2002	6	6	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	5	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
WAH_2023_1	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_1	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.
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.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
vanderMoezel_1987	1	1	P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.