Rhodanthe chlorocephala subsp. rosea

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Rhodanthe chlorocephala subsp. rosea (Hook.) Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms: 23 (APC 2026-07-30)

Acroclinium multicaule A.Gray (taxonomic synonym)
Acroclinium roseum Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)
Acroclinium roseum var. album G.Nicholson (taxonomic synonym)
Acroclinium roseum var. grandiflorum G.Nicholson (taxonomic synonym)
Argyrocome rosea (Hook.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum drummondii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum grayi F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum roseum (Hook.) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum roseum (Hook.) Baill. var. roseum (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum roseum var. typicum Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum album (G.Nicholson) L.H.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum roseum (Hook.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Helipterum roseum (Hook.) Benth. f. roseum (nomenclatural synonym)
Helipterum roseum (Hook.) Benth. var. roseum (nomenclatural synonym)
Helipterum roseum f. album (G.Nicholson) L.H.Bailey ex Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum roseum var. grandiflorum (G.Nicholson) Chitt. (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum roseum var. nigropapposum Ostenf. (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum roseum var. patens (Ewart, Jean White & B.Rees) J.M.Black (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum troedelii var. patens Ewart, Jean White & B.Rees (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Rhodanthe rosea (Hook.) Hemsl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Roccardia rosea (Hook.) Voss (nomenclatural synonym)
Roccardia rosea (Hook.) Voss f. rosea (nomenclatural synonym)
Roccardia rosea (Hook.) Voss subf. rosea (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, ACT (formerly naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gosper_2018 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 56 records in 10 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) [sources: White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_form (categorical): therophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: Gosper_2018; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.1 mg (2.1-2.1 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.05-0.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; 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.
Tsakalos_2020	15	16	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
Gosper_2018	4	4	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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/.
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.
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.