AusTraits

Acanthospermum hispidum

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Acanthospermum hispidum DC.

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

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), ATRP_2020 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (12), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (13), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 83 records in 16 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.33 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (4); anthocarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 65.88 mm (10-125 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (7-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); oblong (1); obovate (2); ovate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.02 m (0.8-1.3 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231014D. 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/.
RBGV_20231013VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231012Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023912N. 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/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.