Senecio pinnatifolius var. alpinus

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Senecio pinnatifolius var. alpinus (Ali) I.Thomps.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Senecio lautus subsp. alpinus Ali (nomenclatural synonym)
Senecio pinnatifolius var. pleiocephalus Belcher (taxonomic synonym)
Senecio rupicola A.Rich. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Senecio pectinatus var. pleiocephalus Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), ANBG_2019 (5), Cheal_2017 (8), Jagdish_2020 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Morgan_2014 (3), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (7), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), Venn_2011 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (60). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 146 records in 17 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): resprouts (5) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 129.54 mm2 (97-194.42 mm2) [sources: Morgan_2014; Pickering_2014; Venn_2011]
leaf_length (numerical): 73.33 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 5.14 g/m2 (5.14-5.14 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.01 g/g (0.01-0.01 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2); auriculate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (8); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); semi_woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2); rhizomatous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyynnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (3); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.39 mg (0.25-0.9 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jagdish_2020; Kew_2019_1; Morgan_2014; Venn_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (3) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	60	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	12	15	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_2023	10	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	10	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
NSWFRD_2014	7	7	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ANBG_2019	1	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Jagdish_2020	2	4	A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Morgan_2014	3	3	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from Victorian alpine plant species, La Trobe University”. 2004.
Venn_2011	3	3	S. E. Venn, K. Green, C. M. Pickering, and J. W. Morgan. “Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 1491-1499. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9923-1.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2022	2	2	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.