Eriocaulon athertonense

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Family Eriocaulaceae

Taxonomy: Eriocaulon athertonense G.J.Leach

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (18), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 28 records in 6 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): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.1 mm (1.5-4.7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.06 mg (0.06-0.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.38 mm (0.3-0.45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.27 mm (0.2-0.34 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.09 m (0.04-0.14 m) [sources: ABRS_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.
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.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.