Ptilotus carlsonii

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Ptilotus carlsonii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ptilotus carlsoni F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Trichinium carlsoni S.Moore (nomenclatural synonym)
Trichinium carlsonii (F.Muell.) S.Moore (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_1 (10), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 35 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_type (categorical): utricle (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 52.5 mm (5-100 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (0.5-10 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1); rosette (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; WAH_2023_1]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1.35 mm (1.3-1.4 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.18 m (0.05-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
WAH_2023_1	7	10	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_1	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
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.
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.