Anarthria prolifera

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Family Anarthriaceae

Taxonomy: Anarthria prolifera R.Br.

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

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (20), Burrows_2008_2 (3), Burrows_2020 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), Pekin_2011 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (6), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (6), Yang_2023 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 91 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); resprouts (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 21 mo (21-21 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.1 mm (2.4-3.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (2.8-3.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); nut (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 113.75 mm (45-270 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); subulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (3); herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): caespitose (1); prostrate (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (1) [sources: Pekin_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.51 m (0.25-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	24	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	12	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Standish_2019	6	6	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Wheeler_2002	6	6	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Pekin_2011	5	5	B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x.
WAH_2022_2	5	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
Burrows_2008_2	3	3	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	3	3	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	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.
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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.