AusTraits

Leptocarpus elegans

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Family Restionaceae

Taxonomy: Leptocarpus elegans B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC):

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

Traits

Top source datasets: WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wheeler_2002 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 15 records in 3 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 38 mm (6-70 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.52 m (0.2-0.7 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wheeler_200278J. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.