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Gonocarpus rudis

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Family Haloragaceae

Taxonomy: Gonocarpus rudis (Benth.) Orchard

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Haloragis rudis Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (15), Barrett_2009 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 39 records in 9 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.05 mm (0.8-1.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.05 mm (0.8-1.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.05 mm (0.8-1.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.21 m (0.1-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231015Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Barrett_200955S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.