Ptilotus distans

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Ptilotus distans (R.Br.) Poir.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ptilotus distans (R.Br.) Poir. subsp. distans (nomenclatural synonym)
Trichinium distans R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (9), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_1 (9), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 55 records in 14 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

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): 36.25 mm (5-90 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.3 mm (0.5-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (4) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4 mg (4-4 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 2.8 mm (2.7-2.9 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.87 m (0.8-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	7	9	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/.
WAH_2023_1	6	9	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	4	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
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/.
NTH_2014	3	3	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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.
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.