AusTraits

Donatia novae-zelandiae

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Family Stylidiaceae

Taxonomy: Donatia novae-zelandiae Hook.f.

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

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (9), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 45 records in 8 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): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 78.54 mm2 (78.54-78.54 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (1) [sources: TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.12 mg (0.12-0.12 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.99 mm (0.99-0.99 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.05 m (0.05-0.05 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221616L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
TMAG_200989Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
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.
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.
Kirkpatrick_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201533K. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.