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Chenopodium album

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Chenopodium album L.

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chenopodium album L. subsp. album (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Chenopodium album L. var. album (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Chenopodium album subsp. hastatum (C.Klinggr.) Graebn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium album subsp. striatiforme (Murr) Murr (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium album var. hastatum C.Klinggr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium album var. hastatum Murr (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium browneanum Roem. & Schult. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium concatenatum subsp. striatiforme Murr (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium lanceolatum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium probstii Aellen (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium probstii Aellen f. probstii (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenopodium striatiforme Murr (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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 (12), Kubiak_2009 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 113 records in 21 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): monoecious (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 60.3 mm (13-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 21.25 mm (5-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 10 cm (10-10 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (2); ovate (3); rhomboidal (3); trullate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (2); toothed_dentate (2); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (3) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (7); perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); erect (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.2 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.55 m (0.2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231216VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NTH_20231013D. 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_20231112Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231212S. 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/.
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/.
RBGV_202255VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wright_200055I. 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.
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_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/.
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/.
WAH_2022_144Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kubiak_200923P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
SAH_202233S. 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_200633A. 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_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_201422B. 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.
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.
SAH_201411J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.