Eclipta alatocarpa

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Eclipta alatocarpa Melville

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

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 68 records in 12 datasets.

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

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.83 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 33.33 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.67 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.4-0.4 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.82 mg (2.82-2.82 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.2-0.4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	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.
NTH_2023	11	15	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	9	11	S. 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/.
ABRS_2022	4	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.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. 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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.