Mesomelaena preissii
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Family Cyperaceae
Taxonomy: Mesomelaena preissii Nees
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Mesomelaena stygia var. preissii (Nees) Kük. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), Gosper_2012 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (16), Tsakalos_2022 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 51 records in 12 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 (2) [sources: Gosper_2012; Tsakalos_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 1.35 mm (1.2-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 1.35 mm (1.2-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1); nutlet (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): white (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (35-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- 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 (3); herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome_non_woody (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.55 m (0.2-0.9 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
- 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 | 7 | 10 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Gosper_2012 | 5 | 5 | C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x. |
| 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. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Tsakalos_2022 | 3 | 3 | J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 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 | 1 | 2 | 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. |