AusTraits

Goodenia quadrifida

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia quadrifida (Carolin) Carolin

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Calogyne quadrifida Carolin (basionym)

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 (18), Chen_2017 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (16), SPRAT_2025_2 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 55 records in 11 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); red_brown (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (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 (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnynnnnnnn (1); nnyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Chen_2017; SPRAT_2025_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.47 mg (0.47-0.47 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.25-0.25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231418Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231216D. 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_201755Chen, 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.
SPRAT_2025_244F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
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.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
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/.
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.