AusTraits

Schoenus racemosus

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Schoenus racemosus J.M.Black

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Gosper_2012 (5), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (9), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 63 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_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); white (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); subulate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (3); tussock (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • 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); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_202389VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_202366S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Gosper_201255C. 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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_202222S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.