AusTraits

Gonocarpus teucrioides

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Family Haloragaceae

Taxonomy: Gonocarpus teucrioides DC.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Goniocarpus teucrioides DC. (orthographic variant)
  • Gonocarpus teucroides Gray (orthographic variant)
  • Haloragis aenea Schindl. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Haloragis elata Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haloragis gunnii Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haloragis teucrioides (DC.) Schltdl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Haloragis teucrioides (DC.) Schltdl. var. teucrioides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Haloragis teucrioides var. elata Sond. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Haloragis teucroides Gray (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Halorrhagis aenea Schindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gonocarpus tetragynus Labill. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Benwell_2024 (4), Cheal_2017 (8), Chen_2017 (4), Falster_2005_2 (6), Hughes_1992 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kubiak_2009 (9), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (6), Mokany_2015 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), NSWFRD_2014 (11), Pickup_2021 (5), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (15), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40), Williams_2011 (9), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 65 traits from 182 records in 28 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 (4); partial_resprouting (2); resprouts (3) [sources: Benwell_2024; Cheal_2017; Falster_2005_2; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Benwell_2024; Cheal_2017; Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.47 mm (1.4-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): grey (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 258.79 mm2 (21-1178.1 mm2) [sources: Falster_2005_2; Leishman_1995; Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 11.83 mm (5-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7.75 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.15 cm (0.1-0.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 79.9 g/m2 (63-96.81 g/m2) [sources: Falster_2005_2; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (2); obtuse (1); rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (11); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • life_form (categorical): chamaephyte (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Williams_2011]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_system (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (2); zoochory (2) [sources: Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020; Williams_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2); wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (1); ynnnnnnnnyyn (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.02 mg (0.89-1.12 mg) [sources: Falster_2005_2; Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.2 mm (1.2-1.2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202040M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231115VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231013N. 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/.
NSWFRD_2014911B. 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.
Kubiak_200969P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Williams_201199R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
Cheal_201788D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Falster_2005_266D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Tradeoffs between height growth rate, stem persistence and maximum height among plant species in a post-fire succession”. Oikos 111 (2005), pp. 57-66. doi: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13383.x.
Leishman_199566M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
Pickup_202155M. 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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.
Mokany_201534K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
Hughes_199233L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
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/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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/.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.