Craspedia macrocephala
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Craspedia macrocephala Hook.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Craspedia alpina Backh. ex Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
- Craspedia glauca var. macrocephala W.M.Curtis (taxonomic synonym)
- Craspedia macrocephala Hook. var. macrocephala (nomenclatural synonym)
- Craspedia richea var. alpina (Backh. ex Hook.f.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Craspedia richea var. macrocephala (Hook.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Mokany_2015 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 17 records in 6 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 1189.09 mm2 (1189.09-1189.09 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.55 mg (0.55-0.55 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
- seed_length (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan_2001 | 7 | 7 | G. 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. |
| 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. |
| Mokany_2015 | 2 | 2 | K. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| RBGK_2014 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |