Platysace compressa
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Family Apiaceae
Taxonomy: Platysace compressa (Labill.) C.Norman
Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Azorella compressa Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Siebera compressa (Labill.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Siebera compressa (Labill.) Benth. var. compressa (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trachymene compressa (Labill.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trachymene compressa (Labill.) Spreng. f. compressa (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trachymene compressa f. laevis Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Trachymene platyptera Bunge (taxonomic synonym)
- Trachymene platyptera Bunge var. platyptera (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (7), Burrows_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Standish_2019 (7), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 38 records in 12 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 16 mo (16-16 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.38 mg (0.33-0.43 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.64 m (0.15-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burrows_2008_2 | 4 | 7 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Standish_2019 | 7 | 7 | R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019. |
| Wheeler_2002 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| Burrows_2020 | 4 | 4 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| 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/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 1 | 1 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |