Hypertelis cerviana

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Family Molluginaceae

Taxonomy: Hypertelis cerviana (L.) Thulin

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pharnaceum cerviana L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pharnaceum cervianum L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Crowley_2007 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Jurado_1991 (6), Jurado_1992 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (6), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (11), Nano_2011 (1), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 94 records in 22 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: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.2 mm (1.8-2.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 18 mm2 (18-18 mm2) [sources: Jurado_1991]
leaf_length (numerical): 9.38 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.2-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (4); oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jurado_1991; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (5); ephemeral (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; Jurado_1991; Kew_2019_5]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnynnnnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnny (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Jurado_1991]
seed_length (numerical): 0.38 mm (0.35-0.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1); reniform (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.11 m (0.03-0.2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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.
NTH_2023	9	11	D. 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_2023	6	8	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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	8	8	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jurado_1991	6	6	E. Jurado. “Diaspore weight, dispersal, growth form and perenniality of central Australian plants”. Journal of Ecology 79 (1991), pp. 811-828.
NHNSW_2023	6	6	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Jurado_1992	1	3	E. Jurado and M. Westoby. “Germination biology of selected central Australian plants”. Austral Ecology 17.3 (1992), pp. 341-348. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1992.tb00816.x.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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_2022	2	2	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/.
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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_2007	1	1	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.