AusTraits

Lysimachia ovalis

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Family Primulaceae

Taxonomy: Lysimachia ovalis (Ruiz & Pav.) U.Manns & Anderb.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Anagallis ovalis Ruiz & Pav. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Anagallis pumila Sw. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Anagallis pumila Sw. var. pumila (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centunculus pentandrus R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centunculus pumilus (Sw.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centunculus pumilus (Sw.) Kuntze var. pumilus (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centunculus pumilus var. pentandrus (R.Br.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Centunculus tenellus Duby (taxonomic synonym)
  • Micropyxis pumila (Sw.) Duby (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (12), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 32 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); sprawling (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.09 mg (0.09-0.09 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231012D. 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/.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.