AusTraits

Goodenia watsonii

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Goodenia watsonii F.Muell. & Tate

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Goodenia watsoni F.Muell. & Tate (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Chen_2017 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Sweedman_2006 (3), 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 25 traits from 43 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (30-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); semi_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.46 m (0.15-0.7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231520Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
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.
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.
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.