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Ptilotus incanus

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Family Amaranthaceae

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

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ptilotus helmsii Ewart & Jean White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus incanus (R.Br.) Poir. var. incanus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ptilotus incanus var. elongatus Benl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus incanus var. parviflorus (Ewart & Jean White) Benl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus obovatus var. griseus Benl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium gnaphalodes A.Cunn. ex Moq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium gnaphaloides A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium incanum R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trichinium incanum R.Br. var. incanum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trichinium incanum var. parviflorum Ewart & Jean White (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 (2), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (14), RussellSmith_2012 (16), SAH_2014 (2), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (12), WAH_2023_1 (6), WAH_2023_2 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 95 records in 18 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): 2 mm (1.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.8-1.2 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): 37.5 mm (7-70 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2014; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.62 mm (5-23 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2014; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (6) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5); shrub (4); subshrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5); woody (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_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): nnnnnyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (4) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.63 mg (2.63-2.63 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (4) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.49 m (0.1-1.2 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RussellSmith_2012416J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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_2022_2312Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_2023511S. 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/.
WAH_2023_217Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_146Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_144Western 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.
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/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_202222D. 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_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_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.