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Stylidium perpusillum

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Family Stylidiaceae

Taxonomy: Stylidium perpusillum Hook.f.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Candollea perpusilla (Hook.f.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stylidium perminutum F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (5), Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2001 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (17), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (14), 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 47 traits from 112 records in 18 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 2.88 mm (1-6 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.31 mm (0.5-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); linear (3); ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009; Wheeler_2002]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; TMAG_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (5); ephemeral (4) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; TMAG_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); rosette (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; SAH_2023]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • 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): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (2) [sources: TMAG_2009; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0 mg (0-0 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.2 mm (0.2-0.2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_20231217S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGV_20231416VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
TMAG_20091114Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Wheeler_2002810J. 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.
Cheal_201755D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Jordan_200155G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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.
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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
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.