Apowollastonia stirlingii

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Apowollastonia stirlingii (Tate) Orchard

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Wedelia stirlingii Tate (basionym)
Wedelia stirlingii Tate (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (20), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (14), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 60 records in 14 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.38 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 38.75 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (4-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (2); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: SAH_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
storage_organ (categorical): caudex (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.66 mg (0.66-0.66 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.71 m (0.3-0.8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	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.
SAH_2023	11	14	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/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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.