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Anthotium junciforme

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Anthotium junciforme (de Vriese) D.A.Morrison

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Anthotium humile var. junciforme (de Vriese) E.Pritz. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Anthotium junciforme subsp. Scott River (C.Robinson 494) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia geniculata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia genuflexa de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia junciformis de Vriese (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Anthotium humile R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), Chen_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 48 records in 12 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 117.5 mm (90-145 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); open (1); prostrate (1); tufted (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2); yyynnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.07 mg (0.07-0.07 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.34 m (0.05-0.4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023912Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002810J. 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.
Chen_201766Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.