Lepironia articulata

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Lepironia articulata (Retz.) Domin

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chondrachne articulata (Retz.) R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Choricarpha aphylla Boeckeler (taxonomic synonym)
Lepironia articulata var. capitata (F.Muell.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Lepironia conifera (Poir.) Druce (taxonomic synonym)
Lepironia mucronata Rich. ex Pers. (taxonomic synonym)
Lepironia mucronata var. capitata F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Restio articulatus Retz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Scirpus conifer Poir. (taxonomic synonym)
Scirpus coniferus Poir. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (8), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 49 records in 11 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

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.25 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.38 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.86 mg (2.86-2.86 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	14	15	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2023	5	8	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/.
NTH_2023	5	6	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
NTH_2022	2	2	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.