Craspedia maxgrayi

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Craspedia maxgrayi J.Everett & Joy Thomps.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (6), Morgan_2014 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (14), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 94 records in 12 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): resprouts (2) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.38 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1237.05 mm2 (1041.1-1433 mm2) [sources: Morgan_2014; Pickering_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 112.5 mm (50-150 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 16.25 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 35.54 g/m2 (35.54-35.54 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.09 g/g (0.09-0.09 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (2); spathulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.36 mg (1.33-1.4 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Morgan_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 3.08 mm (3.08-3.08 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 1.47 mm (1.47-1.47 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): fusiform (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.38 m (0.2-0.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	40	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	10	14	N. 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_2023	9	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	6	6	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
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.
Morgan_2014	3	3	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from Victorian alpine plant species, La Trobe University”. 2004.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	2	2	N. 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/.
RBGV_2022	2	2	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.