Ptilotus murrayi

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Ptilotus murrayi F.Muell.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ptilotus murrayi F.Muell. var. murrayi (nomenclatural synonym)
Ptilotus murrayi var. major J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Ptilotus petiolatus Farmar (taxonomic synonym)
Trichinium murrayi (F.Muell.) Ewart & O.B.Davies (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_2022_1 (8), WAH_2022_2 (12), WAH_2023_1 (11), WAH_2023_2 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 72 records in 12 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 (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): utricle (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 23.5 mm (1-50 mm) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_width (numerical): 8.92 mm (1.5-18 mm) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (2); ovate (2); spathulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (7) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (7) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (1); decumbent (3); erect (1); mat-forming (1); prostrate (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.68 mg (0.68-0.68 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (3) [sources: SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.12 m (0.01-0.15 m) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	6	14	S. 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_2022_2	4	12	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_1	5	11	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	5	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. 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/.
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.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.