Leuzea australis

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Leuzea australis Gaudich.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Centaurea australis (Gaudich.) F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhaponticum australe (Gaudich.) Soják (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhaponticum australe (Gaudich.) Soskov (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhaponticum australe Soskov (taxonomic synonym)
Stemmacantha australis (Gaudich.) Dittrich (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW (presumed extinct), Vic (presumed extinct)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (10), ANBG_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (11), SPRAT_2025_2 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 82 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.86 mm (4.5-8.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 186.67 mm (180-200 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (3); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17.78 mg (17.78-17.78 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.68 m (0.6-0.9 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): sharp_pointed_defence (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	10	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	9	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	9	10	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/.
SPRAT_2025_2	5	7	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	3	3	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.