Asperula pusilla

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Asperula pusilla Hook.f.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Asperula gunnii var. pusilla (Hook.f.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Carey_2003 (3), Doherty_2021 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (12), NSWFRD_2014 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 97 records in 18 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 (2); resprouts (2) [sources: Carey_2003; Doherty_2021; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Carey_2003]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (1.5-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2 mm (1.5-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (2); brown (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 9.42 mm2 (9.42-9.42 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.33 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3); oblanceolate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_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): yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Doherty_2021]
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]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); none (1) [sources: Carey_2003; Doherty_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.79 mg (0.79-0.79 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.08 m (0.05-0.1 m) [sources: Mokany_2015; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
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	13	16	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	11	12	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/.
SAH_2023	9	10	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/.
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.
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/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Carey_2003	3	3	A. C. &. M. E. &. P. H. &. M. L. &. T. M. &. P. O. &. S. S. &. D. S. &. N. Webb. Wildfires in the ACT 2003: Report on Initial Impacts on Natural Ecosystems. Technical Report No. 17. Environment ACT, 2003. url: https://www.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/2539593/17-wildfires-in-the-act-report-on-initial-impacts-on-natural-ecosystems-2003.pdf.
Doherty_2021	3	3	M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
NSWFRD_2014	2	2	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.