Polycarpaea staminodina

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Family Caryophyllaceae

Taxonomy: Polycarpaea staminodina F.Muell.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 51 records in 10 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): 1.45 mm (1.3-1.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 11 mm (4-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3-c4 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.45 mm (0.4-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.35-0.35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	13	17	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	11	15	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.