Bidens subalternans

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Bidens subalternans DC.

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

Distribution (APC): WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), ATRP_2020 (2), Kubiak_2009 (4), Mesaglio_2022 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (6), NSWFRD_2014 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 45 records in 12 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: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (60-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnynnnnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.1 m (0.2-1.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	16	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	6	6	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kubiak_2009	4	4	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
NHNSW_2022	2	2	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	2	2	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Mesaglio_2022	1	1	T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.