Ballantinia antipoda

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Family Brassicaceae

Taxonomy: Ballantinia antipoda (F.Muell.) E.A.Shaw

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bursa antipoda (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Capsella antipoda F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Capsella australis (Hook.f.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Cuphonotus antipodus (F.Muell.) J.M.Black (nomenclatural synonym)
Cuphonotus australis (Hook.f.) O.E.Schulz (taxonomic synonym)
Draba pumilio R.Br. ex DC. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Hutchinsia australis Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Cheal_2017 (8), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), SPRAT_2025_2 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 90 records in 13 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 (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): silique (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
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: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.08 mg (0.08-0.08 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
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.
ABRS_2023	12	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	12	13	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
RBGV_2023	10	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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	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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
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/.
SPRAT_2025_2	1	1	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.