Lepidosperma lineare

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidosperma lineare R.Br.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lepidosperma angustifolia Hook.f. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Lepidosperma angustifolium Hook.f. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Lepidosperma laterale var. angustum Benth. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Lepidosperma lineare R.Br. var. lineare (nomenclatural synonym)
Lepidosperma linearis R.Br. (orthographic variant)
Lepidotosperma lineare Roem. & Schult. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Doherty_2021 (2), Hughes_1992 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 59 records in 9 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 (3) [sources: Doherty_2021; White_2020]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (1); tussock (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Doherty_2021]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_2023	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Doherty_2021	2	2	M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
Hughes_1992	2	2	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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.