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Brachyscome sieberi

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Brachyscome sieberi DC.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachycome sieberi DC. (orthographic variant)
  • Brachyscome sieberi DC. var. sieberi (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachyscome angustifolia var. heterophylla (Benth.) G.L.Davis (pro parte misapplied)
  • Brachyscome sp. aff. angustifolia (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 29 records in 6 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); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.8-2.4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); grey (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); rhizomatous (1); sprawling (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231015N. 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_202244N. 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/.
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.
Jordan_200133G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.