Atriplex billardierei

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Atriplex billardierei (Moq.) Hook.f.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Atriplex billardieri Hook.f. (orthographic variant)
Atriplex chrystallina Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
Atriplex crystallinum F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Obione billardierei Moq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Obione billardieri Moq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Theleophyton billardierei (Moq.) Moq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Theleophyton billardieri Moq. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic (presumed extinct), Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (6), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_3 (1), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (3), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 63 records in 11 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): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; RBGV_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): 8.5 mm (5-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (2-7 mm) [sources: TMAG_2009]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); rhomboidal (1); widely_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

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.
TMAG_2009	9	12	Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
ABRS_2023	5	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
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/.
RBGV_2023	4	5	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_3	1	1	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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.