Actinotus forsythii

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Actinotus forsythii Maiden & Betche

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

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2024 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (3), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 71 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]
post_fire_flowering (categorical): fire_enhanced_flowering (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (1.1-1.2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 11.47 mm (5-18 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 9.72 mm (3.3-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.34 cm (0.4-2.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyynn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.43 mg (0.42-0.45 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.1 mm (3.1-3.1 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 2.04 mm (2.04-2.04 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	10	14	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024	7	11	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	6	8	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	3	3	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	A. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_2023	2	2	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.