Lobelia gelida
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Family Campanulaceae
Taxonomy: Lobelia gelida F.Muell.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Pratia gelida (F.Muell.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Vic
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (22), SPRAT_2025_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 64 records in 8 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 (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; SPRAT_2025_2; White_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 2.05 mm (1.6-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2.05 mm (1.6-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 2.05 mm (1.6-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 11 mm (4-18 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.05 cm (0-0.1 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): mat-forming (2); prostrate (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; SPRAT_2025_2; White_2020]
- 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): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1); nnnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_buds (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBGV_2023 | 16 | 22 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| White_2020 | 21 | 21 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| Cheal_2017 | 8 | 8 | D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010. |
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| RBGV_2022 | 4 | 4 | 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/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |