Fieldia australis

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Family Gesneriaceae

Taxonomy: Fieldia australis A.Cunn.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Basileophyta friderici augusti F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Basileophyta friderici-augusti F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gallagher_2012 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (3), Pickup_2021 (3), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (25), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Wright_2000 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 128 records in 17 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 (3) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: Gallagher_2012; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1); white (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 733.47 mm2 (547.68-958.1 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 20.5 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 30.04 g/m2 (23.52-52.59 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (2); obovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (3); climber_herbaceous (1); climber_woody (1); herb (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; White_2020]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.03 mg (0.03-0.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.06 mm (0.5-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	18	25	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	12	18	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	14	16	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
McCarthy_2017	2	10	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
Gallagher_2012	3	3	R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
NSWFRD_2014	3	3	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Pickup_2021	3	3	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
NHNSW_2022	2	2	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	2	2	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_2000	2	2	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
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.