Alstroemeria psittacina

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Family Alstroemeriaceae

Taxonomy: Alstroemeria psittacina Lehm.

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alstroemeria pulchella L.f. (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (5), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), Kubiak_2009 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NHNSW_2024 (18), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (15), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 88 records in 13 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Kubiak_2009]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 13.75 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 22.5 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (1-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2); ovate (1); spathulate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3); root_tuber (3); stem_tuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
seed_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2024	12	18	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/.
RBGV_2023	12	15	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	8	10	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_1981	4	5	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kubiak_2009	3	3	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.