AusTraits

Centipeda minima

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Centipeda minima (L.) A.Braun & Asch.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Artemisia minima L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Artemisia sternutatoria Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Artemisia sternutatoria Wall. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centipeda minima var. lanuginosa (DC.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centipeda orbicularis Lour. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centipeda orbicularis var. lanuginosa (DC.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cotula minuta G.Forst. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cotula sternutatoria Wall. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Myriogyne minuta (G.Forst.) Less. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Myriogyne minuta var. lanuginosa DC. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Britton_1994 (2), Cheal_2017 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Hughes_1992 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (6), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36), Williams_2005 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 144 records in 27 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): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.29 mm (0.6-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 47.12 mm2 (47.12-47.12 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.17 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.92 mm (1-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obtriangular (2); obtrullate (1); spathulate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1); lobed_shallow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2005]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (9); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Williams_2005]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); prostrate (6); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; White_2020]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (2); hydrochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020; Williams_2005]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020; Williams_2005]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201836M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_20231215S. 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/.
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023911N. 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/.
Jordan_200177G. 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.
NTH_202356D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_202244D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. 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/.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Williams_200544N. S. G. Williams, J. W. Morgan, M. J. McDonnell, and M. A. McCarthy. “Plant traits and local extinctions in natural grasslands along an urban-rural gradient”. Journal of Ecology 93.6 (2005), pp. 1203-1213. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01039.x.
Cheal_201733D. 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.
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.
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/.
Britton_199412D. L. Britton and M. A. Brock. “Seasonal germination from wetland seed banks”. Marine and Freshwater Research 45.8 (1994), pp. 1445-1457. doi: 10.1071/mf9941445.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
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.
Hughes_199211L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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.
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.