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Pastinaca sativa

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Pastinaca sativa L.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Peucedanum sativum (L.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (doubtfully naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (15), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (17), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 53 records in 8 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 75 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 52.5 mm (25-80 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 8.5 cm (5-12 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (2); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); lobed_deep (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): biennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.42 m (0.3-1.8 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231217S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20241115N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.