Ptilotus parviflorus

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Ptilotus parviflorus (Lindl.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ptilotus obovatus var. lancifolius Benl (taxonomic synonym)
Ptilotus obovatus var. parviflorus (Lindl.) Benl (nomenclatural synonym)
Trichinium parviflorum Lindl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Trichinium subviride Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Trichinium virgatum A.Cunn. ex Moq. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: RussellSmith_2012 (8), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 31 records in 4 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 (1); resprouts (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): mammals (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.4 m (1.4-1.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RussellSmith_2012	4	8	J. 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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	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	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.