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Maireana carnosa

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Maireana carnosa (Moq.) Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bassia carnosa (Moq.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bassia lanuginosa C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Chenolea carnosa (Moq.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Echinopsilon carnosus Moq. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kochia carnosa (Moq.) R.H.Anderson (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), Clarke_2015 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Gosper_2018 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_3 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (10), Pate_1998 (7), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Stephens_2021 (3), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 79 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nutlet (1); utricle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.33 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (1.5-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Kew_2019_3; Pate_1998]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6); shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gosper_2018; NTH_2022; Pate_1998; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_form (categorical): chamaephyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gosper_2018; NTH_2022; Pate_1998; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5); woody_base (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • plant_succulence (categorical): not_succulent (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): passive (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnnynyynnn (1); nnnyyynyynyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.01 {delta}[ppth] (-26.01--26.01 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.81 mg (2.81-2.81 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.1-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023710D. 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/.
ABRS_202377Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Pate_199877J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x.
Gosper_201866C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
SAH_202366S. 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/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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/.
SAH_202244S. 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/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_200044I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Draper_202333J. 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.
Kew_2019_333Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Stephens_202113R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Clarke_201522P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.