AusTraits

Schoenoplectiella praelongata

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Schoenoplectiella praelongata (Poir.) Lye

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Schoenoplectus praelongatus (Poir.) J.Raynal (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scirpus incurvatus Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Scirpus praelongatus Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Schoenoplectus articulatus (L.) Palla (misapplied)
  • Scirpus articulatus L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (10), 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 16 traits from 26 records in 8 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
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.55 mm (1.4-1.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (1.1-1.2 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): 240 mm (240-240 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.3-0.7 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023810D. 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/.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
Metcalfe_2020_133D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.