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Lechenaultia striata

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Lechenaultia striata F.Muell.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lechenaultia helmsii K.Krause (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lechenaultia stricta B.D.Jacks. (orthographic variant)
  • Leschenaultia helmsii K.Krause (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leschenaultia striata F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), Chen_2017 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (19), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 82 records in 17 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 22 mm (2-42 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Chen_2017; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 17.83 mm (6-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.08 mm (0.3-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); terete (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (3); scattered (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (2); subshrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (2); woody_base (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (3); erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.55 mm (1.2-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.72 m (0.15-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231419D. 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_20231316S. 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_2023810Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
SAH_202222S. 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_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wenk_2023_211E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.