Marianthus mollis

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Marianthus mollis (E.M.Benn.) L.W.Cayzer & Crisp

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Billardiera mollis E.M.Benn. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (22), Barrett_2009 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 46 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 3 a (3-3 a) [sources: Barrett_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.35 mg (1.06-1.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.06 m (0.05-0.06 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	22	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Barrett_2009	5	5	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
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.
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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
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.