Malacocera gracilis

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Malacocera gracilis Chinnock

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), Draper_2023 (2), Kew_2019_3 (3), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 34 records in 9 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): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (2.5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody_root (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.25-0.25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	6	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023	6	7	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/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
Kew_2019_3	3	3	Royal 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/.
Draper_2023	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.