Cassinia complanata

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Cassinia complanata J.M.Black

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cassinia uncata A.Cunn. ex DC. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 49 records in 9 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

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (0.9-1.1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 24.5 mm (9-40 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.88 mm (0.75-1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): strap-shaped (1); terete (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1); revolute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.2 m (0.9-1.5 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	10	14	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.