Potentilla indica
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Family Rosaceae
Taxonomy: Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Focke (nomenclatural synonym)
- Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Teschem. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Duchesnia indica Teschem. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Fragaria indica Andrews (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kubiak_2009 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (5), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (14), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 44 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 6 mo (6-6 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 33.75 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 18.75 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 9.5 cm (4-15 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); ovate (2); rhomboidal (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2023]
- pollination_system (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBGV_2023 | 11 | 14 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2023 | 8 | 11 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NSWFRD_2014 | 5 | 5 | B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 3 | 3 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| Kubiak_2009 | 2 | 2 | P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165. |
| RBGV_2022 | 2 | 2 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Stephens_2023 | 1 | 1 | R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |