Dianella amoena

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Family Hemerocallidaceae

Taxonomy: Dianella amoena G.W.Carr & P.F.Horsfall

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dianella caerulea Sims var. caerulea (pro parte misapplied)
Dianella longifolia R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (3), Morgan_2011_2 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), Williams_2011 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 67 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): blue (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4241.15 mm2 (4241.15-4241.15 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 285 mm (120-450 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 8 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1); flat (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1); cam (1) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid_not_tussock (1); herb (2); tussock (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): mat-forming (1); rhizomatous (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
pollination_system (categorical): biotic_unspecialised (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020; Williams_2011]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.13 mg (5.09-5.19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015; Morgan_2011_2]
seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.45-0.45 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	15	18	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Williams_2011	10	10	R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
Mokany_2015	3	3	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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Morgan_2011_2	1	1	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait database, La Trobe University”. 2011.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.