AusTraits

Brachyscias verecundus

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Brachyscias verecundus J.M.Hart & Henwood

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

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: SPRAT_2025_2 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (8), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 36 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.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (5-14 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); ephemeral (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.02 m (0.01-0.02 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221818L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Wheeler_200268J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SPRAT_2025_222F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.