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Goodenia cycnopotamica

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia cycnopotamica (F.Muell.) K.A.Sheph.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Velleia cycnopotamica F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Velleya cycnopotamica F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (6), Draper_2023 (3), Dwyer_2017 (21), Gosper_2018 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), 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 33 traits from 88 records in 16 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 36.25 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (3-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 33.94 g/m2 (30.05-46.24 g/m2) [sources: Dwyer_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (2); oblong (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gosper_2018; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); rosette (1) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.52 mg (3.17-3.86 mg) [sources: Dwyer_2017; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (1); orbicular (2); winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.14 m (0.03-0.25 m) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Dwyer_2017321J. M. Dwyer and D. C. Laughlin. “Constraints on trait combinations explain climatic drivers of biodiversity: The importance of trait covariance in community assembly”. Ecology Letters 20.7 (2017), pp. 872-882. doi: 10.1111/ele.12781.
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231114S. 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/.
Chen_201766Chen, 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.
Gosper_201844C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
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_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.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
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.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.