Tagetes erecta
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Tagetes erecta L.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Tagetes patula L. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (15), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (28). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 67 records in 9 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_colour (categorical): black (2); brown (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (15-120 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.78 m (0.1-1.2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_2021 | 23 | 28 | J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538. |
| RBGV_2023 | 10 | 15 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| ABRS_2023 | 7 | 9 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| RBGV_2022 | 4 | 4 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| 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/. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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. |