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Schoenus calostachyus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Schoenus calostachyus (R.Br.) Poir.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chaetospora calostachya R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cyclocampe waigiouensis Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Schoenus calostachyus (R.Br.) Poir. var. calostachyus (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 28 records in 9 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.5-1.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.5-1.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.85 mg (3.85-3.85 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_202369N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Metcalfe_2020_133D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
eFLOWER_Dun_202211L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.