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Leiocarpa semicalva

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Leiocarpa semicalva (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chrysocephalum ambiguum (Turcz.) Anderb. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chrysocephalum semicalvum (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Helichrysum ambiguum Turcz. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Helichrysum ambiguum Turcz. subsp. ambiguum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Helichrysum ambiguum Turcz. var. ambiguum (taxonomic synonym)
  • Helichrysum semicalvum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptorhynchos ambiguus (Turcz.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leptorhynchos ambiguus var. semicalvus (F.Muell.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptorhynchus ambiguus Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leptorhynchus ambiguus var. semicalvus Benth. (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: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (11), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (80). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 131 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (5) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (8); shrub (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (5) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (5) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (5) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); nnyyyyyyyyyn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (4) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.15 mg (0.15-0.15 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202080M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_2023811S. 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/.
NHNSW_2023710N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_255Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
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/.
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.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
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.