Asperula asthenes
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Asperula asthenes Airy Shaw & Turrill
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (11), Pickup_2021 (3), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 29 records in 8 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) [sources: Pickup_2021]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SPRAT_2025_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 5 | 5 | 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/. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| Pickup_2021 | 3 | 3 | M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf. |
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 2 | 2 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 2 | 2 | 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. |
| 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. |