Taraxacum khatoonae

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Taraxacum khatoonae Abedin

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Taraxacum laholense Abedin (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg. (misapplied)
Taraxacum pseudocalocephalum Soest (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (17), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 38 records in 6 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_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5.5-5.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 220 mm (220-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 80 mm (80-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1); hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rosette (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	16	17	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
ABRS_2023	11	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.