Isotoma scapigera

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Family Campanulaceae

Taxonomy: Isotoma scapigera (R.Br.) G.Don

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Enchysia scapigera (R.Br.) C.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
Isotoma scapigera (R.Br.) G.Don var. scapigera (nomenclatural synonym)
Laurentia scapigera (R.Br.) Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Lobelia monanthus de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
Lobelia ophiocephala de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
Lobelia scapigera R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Lobelia scapigera R.Br. var. scapigera (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 47 records in 14 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): trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 18.25 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: SAH_2014; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.62 mm (2-13 mm) [sources: SAH_2014; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); ovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.15 m (0.05-0.2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wheeler_2002	8	10	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.
SAH_2023	8	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/.
SAH_2014	2	4	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
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.
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/.
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.
SAH_2022	3	3	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/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.