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Dentella pulvinata

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Dentella pulvinata Airy Shaw

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dentella pulvinata Airy Shaw var. pulvinata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dentella pulvinata var. repanda Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dentella repens (L.) J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 41 records in 8 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnyyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231214S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.