Blainvillea acmella
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson
Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Blainvillea latifolia (L.f.) DC. (taxonomic synonym)
- Ceratocephalus acmella (L.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Eclipta latifolia L.f. (taxonomic synonym)
- Spilanthes acmella (L.) L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murray (nomenclatural synonym)
- Verbesina acmella L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Wedelia sp. (Marrett River J.A.Elsol+ 680) (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Kew_2019_1 (10), Kew_2019_6 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 42 records in 7 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (80-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 45 mm (40-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 1.75 cm (1.5-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.78 mg (0.14-5.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.35 m (1.2-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 13 | 17 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 10 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 5 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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_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. |
| 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. |