AusTraits

Pappochroma stellatum

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Pappochroma stellatum (Hook.f.) G.L.Nesom

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aplopappus stellatus Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron pappochroma var. stellatus Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron pappocroma var. stellatus A.D.Chapm. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron pappocromus var. stellatus (Hook.f.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron stellatus (Hook.f.) W.M.Curtis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron tasmanicus var. stellatus (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Haplopappus stellatus Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagenithrix stellata (Hook.f.) G.L.Nesom (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Mokany_2015 (3), RBGK_2014 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 15 records in 6 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); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 274.89 mm2 (274.89-274.89 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.51 mg (0.51-0.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015; RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.2 mm (1.2-1.2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.