AusTraits

Ptilotus sessilifolius

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Ptilotus sessilifolius (Lindl.) Benl

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ptilotus atriplicifolius (A.Cunn. ex Moq.) Benl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus atriplicifolius (A.Cunn. ex Moq.) Benl var. atriplicifolius (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus atriplicifolius var. elderi (Farmar) Benl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus incanus var. intermedius Ewart & Jean White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus oblongifolius Gand. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus obovatus var. grandiflorum Ewart & O.B.Davies (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus obovatus var. grandiflorus Ewart & O.B.Davies (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ptilotus sessilifolius (Lindl.) Benl var. sessilifolius (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ptilotus sessilifolius var. elderi (Farmar) Benl (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium atriplicifolium A.Cunn. ex Moq. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium elderi Farmar (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium incanum var. grandiflorum (Benth.) Benth. ex J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium incanum var. intermedium Ewart & Jean White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium obovatum var. atriplicifolium (A.Cunn. ex Moq.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium obovatum var. grandiflorum Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trichinium sessilifolium Lindl. (nomenclatural synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Crowley_2007 (3), Draper_2023 (3), Jurado_1991 (5), Leishman_1992 (7), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (7), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (9), RussellSmith_2012 (12), SAH_2022 (2), SAH_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (4), WAH_2022_2 (9), WAH_2023_1 (6), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (95). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 211 records in 25 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 (5); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (5) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (1.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (1); utricle (2) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 400 mm2 (400-400 mm2) [sources: Jurado_1991; Leishman_1992]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 59 mm (3-160 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 28.02 mm (3-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (4); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: NHNSW_2024; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_1]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (6) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (10); shrub (5); subshrub (4) [sources: Jurado_1991; Leishman_1992; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (8) [sources: Leishman_1992; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5); semi_woody (1); woody (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); open (1) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (5) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (5) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (5); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2); epizoochory (5) [sources: Draper_2023; Jurado_1991; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): mammals (5); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (5); nnnyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (8) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (5) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.18 mg (0.76-1.6 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Leishman_1992]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201995M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
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/.
RussellSmith_2012412J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202379VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_239Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
SAH_202378S. 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/.
Leishman_199277M. R. Leishman and M. Westoby. “Classifying plants into groups on the basis of associations of individual traits-Evidence from Australian semi-arid woodlands”. Journal of Ecology 80 (1992), pp. 417-424. doi: 10.2307/2260687.
NHNSW_202467N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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/.
Jurado_199155E. Jurado. “Diaspore weight, dispersal, growth form and perenniality of central Australian plants”. Journal of Ecology 79 (1991), pp. 811-828.
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/.
Crowley_200723G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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_202222S. 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_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Nano_201111C. 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_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.