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Gunniopsis zygophylloides

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Family Aizoaceae

Taxonomy: Gunniopsis zygophylloides (F.Muell.) Diels

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aizoon zygophylloides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Gunniopsis zygophyloides A.D.Chapm. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (5), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 68 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (6.5-10 mm) [sources: NTH_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 (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 37 mm (11-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 16.17 mm (2-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); ovate (1); spathulate (2); widely_ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (3); erect (3); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.36 mg (0.3-0.42 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.3-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231014D. 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_20231113Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231012S. 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/.
Kew_2019_615Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
SAH_202244S. 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_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.
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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.