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Schoenoplectiella lateriflora

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Schoenoplectiella lateriflora (J.F.Gmel.) Lye

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Isolepis ambigua Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Isolepis supina (L.) R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Schoenoplectiella supina (L.) Lye (taxonomic synonym)
  • Schoenoplectus lateriflorus (J.F.Gmel.) Lye (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Schoenoplectus supinus (L.) Palla (taxonomic synonym)
  • Schoenoplectus supinus (L.) Palla subsp. supinus (taxonomic synonym)
  • Schoenoplectus supinus subsp. lateriflorus (J.F.Gmel.) Soják (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scirpus lateriflorus J.F.Gmel. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scirpus supinus L. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scirpus supinus var. lateriflorus (J.F.Gmel.) T.Koyama (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (8), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 51 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.3 mm (1-1.6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.05 mm (0.9-1.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (2); tussock (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.42 mg (0.27-0.57 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NTH_202368D. 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/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Metcalfe_2020_133D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_201122C. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.