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Cardamine lilacina

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Family Brassicaceae

Taxonomy: Cardamine lilacina Hook.

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cardamine finitima f. lilacina (Hook.) O.E.Schulz (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cardamine finitima var. flaccida (Hook.f.) O.E.Schulz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine gunnii, small Tasmanian variant Hewson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine gunnii, small alpine variant Hewson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine heterophylla var. minor Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine hirsuta var. intermedia (Hook.) Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine intermedia Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine lilacina, 'intermedia' variant Hewson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine lilacina, robust alpine snow-patch variant Hewson (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine lilacina, slender alpine-subalpine variant Hewson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine lilacina, type variant Hewson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine pratensis var. flaccida Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine pratensis var. lilacina (Hook.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cardamine sp. A1 (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine sp. C (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cardamine sp. Y (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (18), ABRS_2023 (71), Cheal_2017 (6), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (7), NSWFRD_2014 (4), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (135). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 286 records in 18 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): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 27 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.65 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): silique (8) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (9) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 90.1 mm2 (78.54-101.65 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Pickering_2014]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 51.55 g/m2 (51.55-51.55 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.19 g/g (0.19-0.19 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); narrowly_lanceolate (1); orbicular (1); ovate (3); reniform (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (6); simple (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (9) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (8) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (8) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (18) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5); perennial (7); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): cushion-forming (2); decumbent (2); erect (2); rhizomatous (2); rosette (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ABRS_2023]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (7) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (7) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (7) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); zoochory (7) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (7) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (6) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (7) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (7) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.56 mg (0.56-0.56 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.65 mm (0.63-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.47 mm (0.47-0.47 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1); winged (4) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_202020135M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231571Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022418Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231317VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202377N. 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/.
Cheal_201766D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Jordan_200166G. 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.
NSWFRD_201444B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Pickering_201444C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
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_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/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://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/.
Mokany_201511K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.