Oreomyrrhis pulvinifica

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Oreomyrrhis pulvinifica F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chaerophyllum pulvinificum (F.Muell.) K.F.Chung (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (17), Morgan_2014 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2024 (19), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Venn_2011 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 103 records in 13 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): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.38 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 41.25 mm2 (39.67-42.08 mm2) [sources: Morgan_2014; Pickering_2014; Venn_2011]
leaf_length (numerical): 8.17 mm (3-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.17 mm (1-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 67.3 g/m2 (67.3-67.3 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.21 g/g (0.21-0.21 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (1); mat-forming (1); prostrate (1); rosette (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; RBGV_2023; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.17 mg (0.7-1.95 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Morgan_2014; RBGK_2014; Venn_2011]
seed_length (numerical): 3.3 mm (3.3-3.3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 1.18 mm (1.18-1.18 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.08 m (0.06-0.09 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
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_2024	9	19	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/.
RBGV_2023	13	18	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	6	17	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NHNSW_2014_2	6	8	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Morgan_2014	3	3	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from Victorian alpine plant species, La Trobe University”. 2004.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Venn_2011	3	3	S. E. Venn, K. Green, C. M. Pickering, and J. W. Morgan. “Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 1491-1499. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9923-1.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.