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Gamochaeta coarctata

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Gamochaeta coarctata (Willd.) Kerguelen

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gamochaeta spicata Cabrera (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gnaphalium coarctatum Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Gnaphalium spicatum Lam. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gamochaeta americana (Mill.) Wedd. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kubiak_2009 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (6), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (17), Soliveres_2012 (3), Standish_2019 (7), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 71 records in 13 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: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Standish_2019]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 41.25 mm (10-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12 mm (8-16 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (2); spathulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; SAH_2022; Soliveres_2012; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5); biennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rosette (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Soliveres_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Soliveres_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.29 m (0.07-0.4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231217S. 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/.
NHNSW_20231116N. 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/.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
NHNSW_2014_266Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kubiak_200944P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NSWFRD_201444B. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
Soliveres_201233S. Soliveres, D. J. Eldridge, F. Hemmings, and F. T. Maestre. “Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity”. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 14 (2012), pp. 402-410. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.