Carpobrotus glaucescens

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Family Aizoaceae

Taxonomy: Carpobrotus glaucescens (Haw.) Schwantes

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Mesembryanthemum australe Sol. ex G.Forst. (taxonomic synonym)
Mesembryanthemum glaucescens Haw. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Mesembryanthemum aequilaterum Haw. (misapplied)
Mesembryanthemum australe Aiton (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), Hughes_1992 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (13), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (10), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 104 records in 15 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (2); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 5 cm (4-6 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (16-24 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1); red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (35-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): involute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): cam (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; White_2020]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.23 mg (0.23-0.23 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.25-0.25 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	17	21	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2024	9	13	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	9	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2023	8	10	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	7	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Hughes_1992	5	5	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.