AusTraits

Brachyscome iberidifolia

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Brachyscome iberidifolia Benth.

Synonyms: 26 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachycome capillacea Walp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia Benth. (orthographic variant)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia f. alba Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia f. bicolor Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia f. coerulea Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia f. rosea Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia var. alba Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia var. diffusa Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia var. divergens Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia var. huegeliana Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachycome iberidifolia var. major Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome capillacea Walp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia Benth. f. iberidifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia Benth. var. iberidifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia f. alba Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia f. bicolor Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia f. coerulea Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia f. rosea Siebert & Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia var. alba Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia var. diffusa Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia var. divergens Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia var. flore-albo A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia var. huegeliana Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyscome iberidifolia var. major Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Steiroglossa chamomillaefolia DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Steiroglossa chamomillifolia DC. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (2), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Draper_2023 (3), Dwyer_2017 (15), Firn_2019 (12), Gosper_2018 (4), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kew_2019_6 (8), Munroe_2019 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (6), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (9), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 125 records in 24 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
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (15-80 mm) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 52.06 g/m2 (31.81-373.32 g/m2) [sources: Dwyer_2017; Firn_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); lobed_deep (1); unlobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023; Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1); hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: Firn_2019; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5); perennial (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Gosper_2018; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: SAH_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1 a (1-1 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Gosper_2018]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.2 mg (0.07-0.76 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Dwyer_2017; Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Tsakalos_20201516J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
Dwyer_2017315J. M. Dwyer and D. C. Laughlin. “Constraints on trait combinations explain climatic drivers of biodiversity: The importance of trait covariance in community assembly”. Ecology Letters 20.7 (2017), pp. 872-882. doi: 10.1111/ele.12781.
Firn_2019412J. Firn, J. M. McGree, E. Harvey, H. Flores-Moreno, M. Schuetz, Y. M. Buckley, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, K. J. L. Pierre, A. M. MacDougall, S. M. Prober, C. J. Stevens, L. L. Sullivan, E. Porter, E. Ladouceur, C. Allen, K. H. Moromizato, J. W. Morgan, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, N. Eisenhauer, J. P. Wright, P. B. Adler, C. A. Arnillas, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, A. A. D. Broadbent, C. S. Brown, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, E. E. Cleland, A. Ebeling, P. A. Fay, N. Hagenah, A. R. Kleinhesselink, R. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, C. Nogueira, P. L. Peri, C. Roscher, M. D. Smith, P. D. Wragg, and A. C. Risch. “Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs”. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3.3 (2019), pp. 400-406. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0790-1.
SAH_2023912S. 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/.
Wheeler_200279J. 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.
Kew_2019_618Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_200616L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Gosper_201844C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
ANBG_201912Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
Kew_2019_211Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.