Suaeda arbusculoides

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Suaeda arbusculoides L.S.Sm.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Kew_2019_3 (2), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 50 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.

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblanceolate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.72 m (0.3-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023	9	12	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_3	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2022	2	2	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.