Stylidium ecorne

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Family Stylidiaceae

Taxonomy: Stylidium ecorne (F.Muell. ex F.L.Erickson & J.H.Willis) P.G.Farrell & S.H.James

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Stylidium calcaratum var. ecorne F.Muell. ex F.L.Erickson & J.H.Willis (nomenclatural synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 67 records in 11 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: White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (2-7 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); ephemeral (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (2) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 0.2 mm (0.2-0.2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.2 mm (0.2-0.2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.13 m (0.02-0.18 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	16	19	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
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/.
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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.