AusTraits

Goodenia bellidifolia

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia bellidifolia Sm.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Goodenia bellidifolia var. ramosissima K.Krause (taxonomic synonym)
  • Goodenia spathulata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (1), Fonseca_2000 (13), Gallagher_2018 (20), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kubiak_2009 (6), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (15), Pickup_2021 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 130 records in 21 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): partial_resprouting (2); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; Pickup_2021]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 301.83 mm2 (86.3-675 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Gallagher_2018; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (40-95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.3 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 45.22 mg (21.73-76.17 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Gallagher_2018]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 253.97 g/m2 (156.25-416.67 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Gallagher_2018; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (2); obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1); yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.48 mg (0.25-0.6 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Gallagher_2018520R. Gallagher, A. Phillips, B. Laugier-Kitchener, C. Laws, D. Lanceman, D. M. Londono, E. McFarlane, J. Foster, K. Marais, L. Pollitt, L. Kovac, M. Lambert, S. Amini, T. Boreham, T. Pyne, H. McPherson, M. Rossetto, M. van der Merwe, I. Wright, and and Matthew Alfonzetti. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Macquarie University”. 2018.
White_20201717M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231416Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231315N. 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/.
Fonseca_2000513C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Pickup_2021510M. 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.
Kubiak_200946P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
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.
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.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
ABRS_198123B. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
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.
Clarke_201511P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.
Sjostrom_200611A. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.