AusTraits

Bedfordia linearis

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Bedfordia linearis (Labill.) DC.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cacalia linearis Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Culcitium lineare (Labill.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Senecio billardierei F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Senecio billardieri F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Senecio billardierii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (5), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 56 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.9 mm (2.5-3.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.7-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.7-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2195.67 mm2 (268-4123.34 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (10-150 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 19 mm (3-35 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 166.91 g/m2 (166.91-166.91 g/m2) [sources: Tng_2013]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; 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]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.09 {delta}[ppth] (-31.09--31.09 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.83 mg (0.83-0.83 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015; RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.77 mg/mm3 (0.77-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.83 m (1-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200177G. 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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Kirkpatrick_202055J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.