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Surreya diandra

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Family Amaranthaceae

Taxonomy: Surreya diandra (R.Br.) R.Masson & G.Kadereit

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hemichroa diandra R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Polycnemon diandrum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Polycnemum diandrum (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, 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 (6), McGlone_2015 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 92 records in 13 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.33 mm (1.8-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): utricle (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 10.33 mm (5-17 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.83 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); linear (1); oblong (1) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1); recurved (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (5); subshrub (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); dense (2); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (2); animals (2); invertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221417L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231014D. 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/.
RBGV_20231113VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Draper_202336J. 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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.