Solanum ditrichum

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Solanum ditrichum A.R.Bean

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Solanum sp. (Mt Maroon P.I.Forster+ PIF11564) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (5), Benwell_2024 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 35 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) [sources: Benwell_2024]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 23.5 mm (21-26 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 23.5 mm (21-26 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); purple (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (60-120 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 70 mm (45-95 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.75 cm (2-5.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); lobed_shallow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.97 mg (0.97-0.97 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.56 mm (2.56-2.56 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 2.27 mm (2.27-2.27 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	11	16	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/.
ANBG_2019	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.