Berula erecta

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Berula angustifolia (L.) Mert. & W.D.J.Koch (taxonomic synonym)
Carum sioides J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Sium angustifolium L. (taxonomic synonym)
Sium erectum Huds. (nomenclatural synonym)
Sium latifolium var. univittatum J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Sium latifolium L. (pro parte misapplied)
Sium latifolium L. (misapplied)
Sium latijugum C.B.Clarke (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (5), Kew_2019_6 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2024 (11), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (18), WAH_2022_2 (5), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 109 records in 14 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): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.2-0.2 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 112 mm (8-400 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 43.5 mm (4-120 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3); oblong (3); ovate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2); semiaquatic (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
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): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.56 mg (0.24-0.9 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.74 m (0.3-1 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
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.
RBGV_2023	10	18	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	11	18	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/.
NHNSW_2024	7	11	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	11	11	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_2	5	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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/.
SAH_2022	4	4	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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.