Diplarrena latifolia

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Family Iridaceae

Taxonomy: Diplarrena latifolia Benth.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diplarrena moraea var. latifolia (Benth.) Baker (nomenclatural synonym)
Diplarrhena latifolia Benth. (orthographic variant)
Diplarrhena moraea var. latifolia Baker (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (6), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), ANBG_2019 (2), Chen_2017 (9), Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 73 records in 13 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: Kirkpatrick_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (25-25 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 7853.98 mm2 (7853.98-7853.98 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 650 mm (300-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ensiform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.84 mg (1.33-2.41 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_1981]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	15	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	16	16	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Chen_2017	9	9	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
ABRS_1981	6	6	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
ANBG_2019	1	2	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Mokany_2015	2	2	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.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.