Asperula minima

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Asperula minima Hook.f.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 48 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblanceolate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_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): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	12	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.