Apowollastonia spilanthoides

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Apowollastonia spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Orchard

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Niebuhria spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Britten (nomenclatural synonym)
Seruneum spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Wedelia spilanthoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), RBGK_2014 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 76 records in 10 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: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.88 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.1 mm (1-1.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 51.25 mm (25-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (2-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1); strap-shaped (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_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): yyyynnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): caudex (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.49 mg (1.49-1.49 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.68 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	15	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.
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	9	11	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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	7	11	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.