Lobelia rhombifolia

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Family Campanulaceae

Taxonomy: Lobelia rhombifolia de Vriese

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lobelia psilostoma E.Wimm. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (6), Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (19), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (17), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (38), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 132 records in 20 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: Standish_2019; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 15.17 mm (8-27 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (2-12 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (2); ovate (1); rhomboidal (1); spathulate (1); widely_obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (8) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (8); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2); prostrate (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Standish_2019; White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.05 mg (0-0.09 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 0.23 mm (0.2-0.35 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.15 mm (0.15-0.15 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1); ovoid (1); polyhedral (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.05-0.4 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	15	19	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	14	17	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/.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Cheal_2017	6	6	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.
Jordan_2001	6	6	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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/.
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.
SAH_2022	3	3	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/.
Yang_2023	3	3	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_2006	2	2	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
SAH_2014	1	1	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://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.