AusTraits

Bedfordia linearis subsp. linearis

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Bedfordia linearis (Labill.) DC. subsp. linearis

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Kirkpatrick_2020 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 29 records in 5 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.7 mm (2.5-2.9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.75 m (1.5-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231418Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kirkpatrick_202055J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.