Rhynchospora brownii

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Rhynchospora brownii Roem. & Schult.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Rhynchospora brownii Roem. & Schult. subsp. brownii (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhynchospora laxa R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhynchospora rugosa subsp. brownii (Roem. & Schult.) T.Koyama (nomenclatural synonym)
Schoenus laxus Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (3), Nano_2011 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (34). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 79 records in 13 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): fire_killed (2); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; NSWFRD_2014; Nano_2011]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.35 mm (1-1.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2); red (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); graminoid_not_tussock (2); herb (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_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): epizoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; 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 (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	17	34	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	7	10	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/.
RBGV_2023	7	10	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
NSWFRD_2014	3	3	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Metcalfe_2020_1	1	1	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.