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Cyanotis axillaris

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Family Commelinaceae

Taxonomy: Cyanotis axillaris (L.) D.Don ex Sweet

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Commelina axillaris L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cyanotus axillaris B.Hyland (orthographic variant)
  • Tradescantia axillaris (L.) L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zygomenes axillaris Salisb. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (3), Cooper_2013 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (27). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 78 records in 14 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1); nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
  • storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.1-0.7 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222327L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231015D. 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/.
Cooper_201389W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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/.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ATRP_202033F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
WAH_2023_223Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
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.