Lobelia tenuior
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Family Campanulaceae
Taxonomy: Lobelia tenuior R.Br.
Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lobelia adscendens de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
- Lobelia ciliata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
- Lobelia heterophylla var. major Paxton (taxonomic synonym)
- Lobelia longepedunculata de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
- Lobelia longepedunculata de Vriese var. longepedunculata (taxonomic synonym)
- Lobelia longepedunculata var. gracilior de Vriese (taxonomic synonym)
- Rapuntium tenuius (R.Br.) C.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Lobelia heterophylla Labill. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Schmidt_1993 (2), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 41 records in 11 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: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 6 mo (6-6 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 44 mm (18-70 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): annual (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 0.5 a (0.5-0.5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.04 mg (0.04-0.04 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.41 m (0.15-0.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 4 | 4 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Burrows_2020 | 4 | 4 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 4 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| 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/. |
| Schmidt_1993 | 2 | 2 | S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993. |
| 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. |
| 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. |