Genus: Cyperus

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Names and sources

Accepted Name	Source
Cyperus L.	APC
According to:Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census
Published in:Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1 [44]

Synonym	Source
Mariscopsis Cherm. heterotypic	APC
Published in:Chermezon, H. (1919), Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [60]
Queenslandiella Domin heterotypic	APC
Published in:Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85) [415]
Chlorocyperus Rikli heterotypic	APC
Published in:Rikli, M.A. (1895), Jahrbucher fur Wissenschaftliche Botanik 27 [563, t. 19, fig. 1]
Juncellus C.B.Clarke heterotypic	APC
Published in:Clarke, C.B. in Hooker, J.D. (September 1893), Cyperaceae. The Flora of British India 6(19) [594]
Sorostachys Steud. heterotypic	APC
Published in:Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(7) [71]
Anosporum Nees heterotypic	APC
Published in:Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 9 [287]
Torulinium Desv. ex Ham. heterotypic	APC
Published in:Hamilton, W. (1825), Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis [15]
Pycreus P.Beauv. heterotypic	APC
Published in:Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1816), Flore d'Oware et de Benin en Afrique 2(15) [48, t. 86, fig. 2]
Mariscus Vahl heterotypic	APC
Published in:Vahl, M.(H.) (1806), Enumeratio Plantarum Edn. 2, 2 [372]
Kyllingia L.f. synonym	NZOR
Thryocephalon J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. synonym	NZOR
Remirea Aubl. heterotypic	APC
Published in:Aublet, J.B.C.F. (1775), Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Francoise 1 [44, t. 16]
Kyllinga Rottb. synonym	NZOR
Pycreus ?lanceolatus (short) synonym	Additional Taxonomy - Additional synonyms for names matching part 1 2025

Name	Source
Cyperus L. accepted	APC

Identifier	Source
https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/51434363 Taxon Concept current	APC
https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/94940 Scientific Name current	APC
http://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51763056 Taxon unknown	APC
https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51763056 Taxon current	APC

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kingdom: Plantae

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Source: Zenodo

Rights holder: AusTraits

Provided by: AusTraits

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Falster, Gallagher et al (2021) AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific Data 8: 254, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6 - followed by the ALA url and access date
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The trait data shown here are a selection from AusTraits, an open-source, harmonised database of Australian plant trait data, sourced from individual researchers, government entities (e.g. herbaria) or NGOs across Australia. Traits vary in scope from morphological attributes (e.g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) to ecological attributes (e.g. fire response, flowering time, pollinators) and physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency.)

These traits are a sampler of those available in AusTraits. The data presented here are summary statistics derived from all field-collected data on adult plants available from AusTraits. Since the data presented are derived from the wide variety of sources in AusTraits, both the numeric trait statistics (min, mean, max) and categorical trait summaries (frequency of each trait value) that have been merged together could include data collected using different methods. The values presented for this species may reflect a summary of data from one or many sources, one or many samples from one or many adult plants at one or many locations. They may therefore differ from those presented elsewhere on the ALA platform and users are encouraged to download a spreadsheet of the full AusTraits data for this species via the download CSV button to view the accompanying details about the data sources before further use.

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