Nyssanthes diffusa
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Family Amaranthaceae
Taxonomy: Nyssanthes diffusa R.Br.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Nyssanthes media R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (7), NHNSW_2024 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 51 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): utricle (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): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (4-13 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1); biennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.72 mg (0.64-0.8 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 20 | 20 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 5 | 7 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2024 | 5 | 7 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 6 | 7 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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_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. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |