AusTraits

Senecio hispidissimus

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Senecio hispidissimus I.Thomps.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Erechtites arguta var. aspera Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Erechtites argutus var. asper Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Senecio asper A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Senecio sp. C f. 3 (taxonomic synonym)
  • Senecio sp. C f. 4 (taxonomic synonym)
  • Senecio sp. aff. tenuiflorus (South-west) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Senecio hispidulus A.Rich. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 68 records in 9 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): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.15 mm (1.5-2.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 88.33 mm (50-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 23.75 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231114VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231012Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.