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Picnomon acarna

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Picnomon acarna (L.) Cass.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Carduus acarna L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Carlina acarna (L.) M.Bieb. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cirsium acarna (L.) Moench (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cnicus acarna (L.) L. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (14), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (15), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 48 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.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.02 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (35-300 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.12 mm (0.5-20 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1); oblanceolate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); lobed_shallow (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.7 m (0.5-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231115S. 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/.
RBGV_20231014VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_202367Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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/.
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.