Dianella tarda

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Family Hemerocallidaceae

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

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

Distribution (APC): SA, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (23), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 82 records in 10 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): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6 mm (3-9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): blue (2); white (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 950 mm (350-1600 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (6-17 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); tussock (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1); tufted (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.28 mg (4.28-4.28 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.88 mm (1.75-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid_flattened (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	16	23	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	16	21	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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_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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.