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Cyathula prostrata

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Achyranthes prostrata L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (11), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (12), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 62 records in 11 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): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.1 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (1); utricle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 53.75 mm (8-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (5-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.1-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); rhomboidal (2); widely_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; NTH_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (1); yyynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.12 mg (2.12-2.12 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.42 mm (1.25-1.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.53 m (0.5-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231520Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231012D. 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_2013911W. 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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ATRP_202022F. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.