Lobelia dioica
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Family Campanulaceae
Taxonomy: Lobelia dioica R.Br.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Holostigma dioica (R.Br.) G.Don (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lobelia mezlerioides E.Wimm. (taxonomic synonym)
- Monopsis dioica (R.Br.) C.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), NTH_2022 (3), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 31 records in 10 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): dioecious (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 16 mm (7-25 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.01 mg (0.01-0.01 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.17 m (0.05-0.3 m) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brock_1993 | 9 | 12 | J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246. |
| 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/. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| 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/. |
| Rice_1991 | 1 | 1 | B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |