AusTraits

Actinotus minor

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Actinotus minor (Sm.) Tratt.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eriocalia minor Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Fonseca_2000 (13), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kubiak_2009 (4), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2024 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 67 records in 14 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): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.4 mm (1.9-2.9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.05 mm (0.8-1.3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 31.78 mm2 (12-75.9 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.9 mm (1.2-2.9 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 5.67 mg (3-7 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.72 cm (0.25-1.2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 165.43 g/m2 (89.29-344.83 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (1); myrmecochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; NSWFRD_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.78 mg (0.65-0.8 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.3-0.5 m) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Fonseca_2000513C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
NSWFRD_20141113B. 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.
NHNSW_2024610N. 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/.
Leishman_199566M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Kubiak_200934P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.