Patersonia occidentalis var. occidentalis

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Family Iridaceae

Taxonomy: Patersonia occidentalis R.Br. var. occidentalis

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Genosiris longiscapa (Sweet) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Genosiris occidentalis (R.Br.) F.Muell. var. occidentalis (nomenclatural synonym)
Patersonia diesingii Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
Patersonia flaccida Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
Patersonia longiscapa Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
Patersonia nana Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
Patersonia occidentalis var. aemulans Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Patersonia sapphirina Lindl. (taxonomic synonym)
Patersonia sp. Swamp Form (N.Gibson & M.Lyons 544) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (14), Tsakalos_2020 (18), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 73 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 21.5 mm (18-25 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 382.5 mm (80-750 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.38 mm (1.5-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): ensiform (1); linear (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); ynnyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.9 m (0.8-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Tsakalos_2020	17	18	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
RBGV_2023	10	14	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.