Pityrodia viscida
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Family Lamiaceae
Taxonomy: Pityrodia viscida W.Fitzg.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Pityrodia muelleriana E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Tsakalos_2020 (18), Tsakalos_2022 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 33 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 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome_non_woody (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.3-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Tsakalos_2022 | 3 | 3 | J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 2 | 2 | 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. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 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. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203. |
| 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. |