Scleria lithosperma var. linearis

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Scleria lithosperma var. linearis Benth.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Scleria lithosperma subsp. linearis (Benth.) T.Koyama (nomenclatural synonym)
Scleria lithosperma var. roxburghii C.B.Clarke (taxonomic synonym)
Scleria roxburghii (C.B.Clarke) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Scleria roxburghii var. australiensis Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 7 traits from 8 records in 4 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): dioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): tufted (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_1	3	3	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.