AusTraits

Bedfordia salicina

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Bedfordia salicina (Labill.) DC.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cacalia salicina Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Culcitium salicina Orchard (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Culcitium salicinum (Labill.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (5), Edwards_2000 (25), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2007 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (5), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Richards_2008 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 102 records in 16 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.9 mm (2.9-2.9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 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): brown (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2144.14 mm2 (848.23-4870.68 mm2) [sources: Edwards_2000; Jordan_2007; Mokany_2015; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (60-130 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (1-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 97.81 g/m2 (51.85-118 g/m2) [sources: Edwards_2000; Jordan_2007; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (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]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1); undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [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]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Jordan_2007]
  • 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_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.79 mg/g (9.12-19 mg/g) [sources: Edwards_2000; Richards_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.9 mg/g (1.9-1.9 mg/g) [sources: Richards_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.79 {delta}[ppth] (-32.79--32.79 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.54 mg (0.54-0.54 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.52 mm (2.5-2.55 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.04 mm (0.58-1.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.65-0.65 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4.17 m (2-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Edwards_2000525C. Edwards, J. Read, and G. D. Sanson. “Characterising sclerophylly: some mechanical properties of leaves from heath and forest”. Oecologia 123.2 (2000), pp. 158-167. doi: 10.1007/s004420051001.
ABRS_20231519Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200788G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
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.
ANBG_201955Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
eFLOWER_Dun_202244L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
Richards_200833A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.