Ammobium alatum

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Ammobium alatum R.Br.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ammobium alatum R.Br. f. alatum (nomenclatural synonym)
Ammobium alatum f. grandiflorum Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
Ammobium spathulatum Gaudich. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum alatum (R.Br.) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Ixodia ammobium Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic, Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Pickup_2021 (10), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 58 traits from 124 records in 18 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 (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.42 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 91.67 mm (20-300 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.83 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 8.5 cm (7-10 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_lanceolate (2); narrowly_ovate (1); spathulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2); hastate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (8) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (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): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2); yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.53 mg (0.35-1 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.1 mm (3.1-3.1 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 0.68 mm (0.68-0.68 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.6-1 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	12	17	N. 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/.
SAH_2023	12	17	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGV_2023	10	16	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Pickup_2021	5	10	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	8	9	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	6	6	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	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.
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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from 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.