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Dodonaea filiformis

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Dodonaea filiformis Link

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dodonaea ericaefolia G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dodonaea ericifolia G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dodonaea salsolifolia A.Cunn. ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dodonaea angustissima DC. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (4), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (5), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (17), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 77 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.25 mm (9.5-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14.25 mm (12-16.5 mm) [sources: 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): 17.28 mm2 (17.28-17.28 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 17.33 mm (4-26 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.9 mm (0.5-1.4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; TMAG_2009]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.15 mg (2.13-2.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.05 mm (1.9-10 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.55 mm (1-2.3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
TMAG_20091317Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
ABRS_20231216Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200177G. 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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
Kirkpatrick_202055J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Draper_202344J. 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.
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.
Mokany_201522K. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.