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Polygala isingii

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Family Polygalaceae

Taxonomy: Polygala isingii Pedley

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Polygala sp. Western Tanami (D.E.Albrecht 10660) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Polygala chinensis var. squarrosa (Benth.) Domin (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (19), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 73 records in 15 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.7 mm (4.2-5.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.3 mm (2.5-4.1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 12.83 mm (5-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (2-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0.1-0.1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (2); oblanceolate (2); oblong (1); obovate (2); widely_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); short_lived_perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.94 mg (1.94-1.94 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.82 mm (3.5-4.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.45 mm (1.2-1.7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231319D. 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/.
SAH_20231113S. 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/.
ABRS_20231012Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.