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Ptilotus decipiens

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Ptilotus decipiens (Benth.) C.A.Gardner

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alternanthera decipiens Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ptilotus hoodii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium hoodii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), SAH_2014 (2), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_1 (9), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 67 records in 16 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): 0.95 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.7-1.2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): utricle (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 25.33 mm (4-35 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 11.83 mm (2-19 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2014; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (2); rhomboidal (2); spathulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (6); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5); woody_base (1) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); decumbent (3); dense (1); erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.55 mg (0.35-2.74 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.05 mm (1-1.1 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.27 m (0.2-0.3 m) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231014D. 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/.
WAH_2023_169Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
NTH_202244D. 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_202244S. 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/.
SAH_202344S. 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/.
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_144Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_201422J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
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_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.