Goodenia armstrongiana

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia armstrongiana de Vriese

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Brock_1993 (12), Chen_2017 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 63 records in 15 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 24.33 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.92 mm (1.5-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2); prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyynnnn (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Chen_2017]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.68 mg (0.68-0.68 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.47 m (0.3-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993	9	12	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_2023	8	10	D. 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/.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. 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/.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Sjostrom_2006	1	1	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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.