Grammosolen dixonii

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Grammosolen dixonii (F.Muell. & Tate) Haegi

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Anthotroche blackii F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Newcastelia dixonii F.Muell. & Tate (nomenclatural synonym)
Newcastlia dixoni F.Muell. & Tate (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Anthotroche blackii F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), Draper_2023 (3), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (24), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 56 traits from 97 records in 10 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.12 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.2 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4.25 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (6-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (4-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (2); ovate (1); triangular (2); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2); undulate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); sprawling (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.15 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	17	24	S. 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/.
ABRS_2023	14	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	14	17	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. 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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.