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Glinus orygioides

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Family Molluginaceae

Taxonomy: Glinus orygioides F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Mollugo orygioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (7), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (18), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 85 records in 18 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35.5 mm (7-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblanceolate (1); obovate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); rosette (1); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnynnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.21 mg (0.21-0.21 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.1 mm (1-1.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231620Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231418D. 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/.
NHNSW_202377N. 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/.
SAH_202366S. 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_202244N. 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/.
NTH_202244D. 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_200644A. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
SAH_202222S. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
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.