Lemooria burkittii

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Lemooria burkittii (Benth.) P.S.Short

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Angianthus burkittii (Benth.) J.M.Black (nomenclatural synonym)
Angianthus whitei J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Gnephosis burkittii Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Lemoorea burkittii Mabb. (orthographic variant)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (8), Pate_1998 (7), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (10), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (59), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 135 records in 19 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: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 0.98 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.3-1 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: Pate_1998; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (9) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Pate_1998; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (5); ephemeral (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Pate_1998; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
plant_succulence (categorical): not_succulent (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (6) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: Pate_1998; White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (4) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); epizoochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (3); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnynnnn (2); nnnnnnyyyynn (1); nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.56 {delta}[ppth] (-29.56--29.56 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.12 mg (0.12-0.12 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.05 m (0.05-0.05 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (3) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	59	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_2023	11	13	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/.
RBGV_2023	7	10	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	6	8	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/.
Pate_1998	7	7	J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	5	5	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
SAH_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
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/.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
Sweedman_2006	1	1	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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.