AusTraits

Plantago bellardii

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Family Plantaginaceae

Taxonomy: Plantago bellardii All.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Plantago bellardi All. (orthographic variant)
  • Plantago sp. Kondinin hairy (M.N.Lyons 2917) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 52 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (10-75 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); oblanceolate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231319S. 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_20231216VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. 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/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Stephens_202112R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.