Senecio pinnatifolius var. lanceolatus

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Senecio pinnatifolius var. lanceolatus (Benth.) I.Thomps.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Senecio lautus subsp. dissectifolius Ali (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Senecio lautus subsp. lanceolatus (Benth.) Ali (nomenclatural synonym)
Senecio lautus subsp. maritimus Ali (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Senecio lautus var. lanceolatus Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Senecio pinnatifolius var. 2 (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Senecio pinnatifolius var. 3 (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Senecio lautus G.Forst. ex Willd. (pro parte misapplied)
Senecio pinnatifolius A.Rich. var. pinnatifolius (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), Clarke_2015 (2), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (60). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 95 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.55 mm (2-3.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (30-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); triangular (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); auriculate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; 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]
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): yyynnnnnnnyy (1); yyynnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2); vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 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.
RBGV_2023	11	13	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.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.