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Asteridea athrixioides

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Asteridea athrixioides (Sond. & F.Muell.) Kroner

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Asteridea athrixioides (Sond. & F.Muell.) Kroner f. athrixioides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Asteridea athrixioides f. horripes (J.M.Black) D.A.Cooke (taxonomic synonym)
  • Athrixia athrixioides (Sond. & F.Muell.) Sond. ex Druce (taxonomic synonym)
  • Athrixia athrixioides (Sond. & F.Muell.) Sond. ex Druce var. athrixioides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Athrixia athrixioides var. horripes (J.M.Black) E.L.Robertson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Athrixia tenella Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Athrixia tenella Benth. var. tenella (taxonomic synonym)
  • Athrixia tenella var. horripes J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Panaetia athrixioides Sond. & F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Panaetia athrixoides Sond. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Gosper_2018 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 97 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 24.5 mm (8-40 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.62 mm (0.5-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5) [sources: Gosper_2018; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (2); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.05 mg (0.05-0.05 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201938M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231214VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_20231214S. 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/.
Gosper_201844C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Draper_202333J. 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_202233S. 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/.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.