Hydrocotyle tetragonocarpa
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Family Araliaceae
Taxonomy: Hydrocotyle tetragonocarpa Bunge
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hydrocotyle hamelinensis H.Eichler (taxonomic synonym)
- Hydrocotyle hamelinensis J.R.Wheeler, N.G.Marchant & M.Lewington (taxonomic synonym)
- Hydrocotyle sp. 5 (Hamelin Bay) (taxonomic synonym)
- Hydrocotyle sp. 5 (Hamelin Bay; Hj.Eichler 23028) (taxonomic synonym)
- Hydrocotyle sp. Augusta (G.J.Keighery 11084) (taxonomic synonym)
- Hydrocotyle sp. Hamelinensis (G.J.Keighery s.n. PERTH 02391325) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2), Wheeler_2002 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 48 records in 9 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 (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 6 mo (6-6 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): unknown (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 7.88 mm (1.5-14 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 10.75 mm (2-18 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); reniform (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): annual (8) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 0.5 a (0.5-0.5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.01-0.15 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler_2002 | 8 | 20 | J. 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 8 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 4 | 4 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Burrows_2020 | 4 | 4 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 4 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |