Siloxerus pygmaeus
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Siloxerus pygmaeus (A.Gray) P.S.Short
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Chamaesphaerion pygmaeum A.Gray (basionym)
- Chthonocephalus pygmaeus (A.Gray) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Gyrostephium rhizocephalum Turcz. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Gosper_2018 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 16 records in 7 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) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- 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 (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.04 mg (0.04-0.04 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ANBG_2019 | 1 | 1 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |