Peplidium maritimum

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Family Phrymaceae

Taxonomy: Peplidium maritimum (L.f.) Asch.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hedyotis maritima L.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Peplidium humifusum Delile (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), NTH_2022 (5), NTH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 51 records in 10 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): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 31.75 mm (3-100 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.1-0.7 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (2); terrestrial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): floating (1); prostrate (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.01 mg (0.01-0.01 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.35 mm (0.3-0.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	11	16	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	13	15	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_2022	5	5	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	5	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.