Cotula turbinata
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Cotula turbinata L.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (8), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (6), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 31 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: Standish_2019]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.31 m (0.05-0.4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 7 | 8 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Standish_2019 | 6 | 6 | R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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. |