Aneilema siliculosum
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Family Commelinaceae
Taxonomy: Aneilema siliculosum R.Br.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Aneilema siliculosa R.Br. (orthographic variant)
- Aneilema siliculosum R.Br. var. siliculosum (nomenclatural synonym)
- Aneilema siliculosum var. gracilescens Domin (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Commelina siliculosa (R.Br.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 24 records in 7 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); sprawling (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 11 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| 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. |
| ATRP_2020 | 2 | 2 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Nano_2011 | 2 | 2 | C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x. |
| 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. |