AusTraits

Senecio pinnatifolius var. capillifolius

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Senecio pinnatifolius var. capillifolius (Hook.f.) I.Thomps.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Senecio capillifolius Hook.f. (basionym)
  • Senecio lautus var. capillifolius F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (10), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 39 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); semi_woody (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); sprawling (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.37 mg (0.37-0.37 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.8-0.8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231012VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023910Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.