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Haloragis acutangula

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Family Haloragaceae

Taxonomy: Haloragis acutangula F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Haloragis serra var. gracilis Sond. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Halorrhagis acutangula Schindl. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), Chen_2017 (4), Draper_2023 (3), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 103 records in 15 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (3); linear (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (2); spreading (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); hydrochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1); water (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (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_dry_mass (numerical): 1.65 mg (1.65-1.65 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231217VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_20231114S. 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_20231012Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.