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Podolepis gracilis

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Podolepis gracilis Graham

Synonyms: 14 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Podolepis filiformis Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis gracilis Graham f. gracilis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Podolepis gracilis f. alba Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis gracilis f. rosea (Steetz) Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis gracilis f. superba Voss (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis rosea Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis rosea Steetz var. rosea (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis rosea var. mollissima Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis rosea var. mollissima Walp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Podolepis spenceri Ewart (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stylolepis gracilis Lehm. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stylolepis gracilis Lehm. var. gracilis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stylolepis gracilis var. arachnoidea Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stylolepis gracilis var. glabra Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (5), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (8), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 66 records in 14 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1 a (1-1 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (1); ynnnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.22 mg (0.12-0.33 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.07 mm (1.07-1.07 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.33 mm (0.33-0.33 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Tsakalos_20201516J. 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.
Wheeler_2002810J. 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.
Standish_201988R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
ANBG_201955Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Burrows_2008_244N. 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).
Burrows_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.