Lyginia barbata

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Family Anarthriaceae

Taxonomy: Lyginia barbata R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lyginia barbata R.Br. var. barbata (nomenclatural synonym)
Lyginia morphotype R4 (taxonomic synonym)
Lyginia symphyonema F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (17), Veneklaas_2003 (20), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (8), Yang_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24), vanderMoezel_1987 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 70 traits from 113 records in 17 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 (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Tsakalos_2020; Yang_2023; vanderMoezel_1987]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 21 mo (21-21 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 675.68 g/m2 (675.68-675.68 g/m2) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.51 g/g (0.51-0.51 g/g) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.49 g/g (0.49-0.49 g/g) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_type (categorical): needle (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Veneklaas_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (4); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Veneklaas_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rhizomatous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 7.1 mg/g (7.1-7.1 mg/g) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.37 mg (3.37-3.37 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Veneklaas_2003	18	20	E. J. Veneklaas and P. Poot. “Seasonal patterns in water use and leaf turnover of different plant functional types in a species-rich woodland, south-western Australia”. Plant and Soil 257.2 (2003), pp. 295-304. doi: 10.1023/a:1027383920150.
Tsakalos_2020	16	17	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	10	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002	7	8	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.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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/.
WAH_2023_2	2	3	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/.
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.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
vanderMoezel_1987	1	1	P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.