Goodenia leiosperma

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia leiosperma Carolin

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

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 58 records in 12 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): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Chen_2017; NTH_2023; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 71.75 mm (27-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.25 mm (7-36 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); auriculate (1); hastate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.7 mg (3.7-3.7 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	16	18	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_2023	11	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
Wright_2000	4	4	I. 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.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	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/.
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.
ABRS_1981	1	1	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/.
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.