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Blumea lacera

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Blumea lacera (Burm.f.) DC.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blumea glandulosa DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Blumea glandulosa DC. var. glandulosa (taxonomic synonym)
  • Conyza lacera Burm.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blumea hieraciifolia (Spreng.) DC. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Blumea hieraciifolia var. holosericea (DC.) Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Blumea holosericea DC. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 60 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 122.17 mm (3-260 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 29.33 mm (5-54 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (2); oblong (1); obovate (1); spathulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_dentate (2); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.03 mg (0.03-0.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.3-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231114N. 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/.
NTH_202379D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
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/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.