Atriplex nummularia subsp. nummularia

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Atriplex nummularia Lindl. subsp. nummularia

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Atriplex nummularia Lindl. var. nummularia (nomenclatural synonym)
Atriplex nummularia subsp. erosa Aellen (taxonomic synonym)
Atriplex nummularia subsp. eunummularia Aellen (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (3), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 68 records in 12 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); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 190 mm (30-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (30-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (1-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): widely_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
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): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_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	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023	8	11	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/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	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	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
RBGV_2023	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.