Mitracarpus hirtus
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Mitracarpus hirtus (L.) DC.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Mitracarpus hirtum DC. (orthographic variant)
- Spermacoce hirta L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (9), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 10 traits from 15 records in 5 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Stephens_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 8 | 9 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| ATRP_2020 | 2 | 2 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |