Drosera paleacea

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Family Droseraceae

Taxonomy: Drosera paleacea DC.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Drosera paleacea DC. subsp. paleacea (nomenclatural synonym)
Drosera paleacea DC. var. paleacea (nomenclatural synonym)
Drosera parvula Planch. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (36), WAH_2022_2 (9), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), vanderMoezel_1987 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 79 records in 9 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: vanderMoezel_1987]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.48 cm (0.2-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (4) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1); hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); rosette (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.04 m (0.03-0.05 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	17	36	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	7	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	3	9	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	2	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
WAH_2023_2	1	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
vanderMoezel_1987	2	2	P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.