Atriplex australasica

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Atriplex australasica Moq.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Atriplex patula var. gunnii Aellen (taxonomic synonym)
Atriplex patula var. serratifolia Aellen (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Atriplex patula L. (misapplied)
Chenopodium bonus-henricus L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (11), Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_3 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (11), SAH_2014 (2), SAH_2022 (5), SAH_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 100 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); monoecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nutlet (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (5-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (1-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (4); linear (2); narrowly_rhomboidal (1); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (3); hastate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (4); toothed_serrate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (4); unlobed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (4); spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2); barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1); wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.94 mg (0.94-0.94 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.41 mm (1.41-1.41 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.63 mm (0.63-0.63 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.92 m (0.4-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	10	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	9	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	9	10	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	8	8	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	6	6	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.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2022	5	5	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	5	5	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/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Kew_2019_3	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2014	1	2	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.