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Stemodia glabella

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Family Plantaginaceae

Taxonomy: Stemodia glabella W.R.Barker

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Limnophila morgania F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Morgania glabra R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Morgania glabra R.Br. var. glabra (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stemodia morgania (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (2), White_2020 (60). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 117 records in 16 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (2); linear (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (4) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1); hydrochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); birds (1); water (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); nnyyyyyyyynn (2); yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.02 mg (0.02-0.02 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202060M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231114N. 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_20231013VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023_212E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.