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Pappochroma tasmanicum

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Family Asteraceae

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

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aplopappus tasmanicus Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron pappochroma var. oblongatus Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron pappocroma var. oblongatus A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Erigeron pappocromus var. oblongatus Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Erigeron tasmanicum Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron tasmanicus (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Erigeron tasmanicus (Hook.f.) Hook.f. var. tasmanicus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Haplopappus tasmanicus Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagenopappus tasmanicum S.J.Forbes & D.I.Morris (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagenopappus tasmanicus (Hook.f.) G.L.Nesom (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pappochroma tasmanica G.L.Nesom (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Mokany_2015 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 48 records in 7 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 235.62 mm2 (235.62-235.62 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (3-9 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231012VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Mokany_201522K. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.