Atriplex hymenotheca
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Family Chenopodiaceae
Taxonomy: Atriplex hymenotheca Moq.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Atriplex hymenotheca Moq. var. hymenotheca (nomenclatural synonym)
- Atriplex hymenothecum F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (9), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (4), Kew_2019_3 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 34 records in 10 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): nutlet (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): passive (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.1-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 8 | 9 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 5 | 5 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Draper_2023 | 4 | 4 | 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/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |