AusTraits

Dipsacus sativus

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Family Caprifoliaceae

Taxonomy: Dipsacus sativus (L.) Honck.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dipsacus fullonum subsp. sativus (L.) Thell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dipsacus fullonum var. sativus L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (9), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 36 records in 5 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 125 mm (100-150 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); linear (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_20211921J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
SAH_202379S. 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/.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.