AusTraits

Taraxacum sect. Taraxacum

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Taraxacum F.H.Wigg. sect. Taraxacum

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia Kirschner, H.Øllg. & Štěpánek (taxonomic synonym)
  • Taraxacum sect. Vulgaria Dahlst. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (6), Doherty_2021 (3), Kubiak_2009 (4), Mesaglio_2022 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (5), OReillyNugent_2018 (2), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (17), Standish_2019 (6), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 74 records in 14 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1); yellow (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2]
  • life_form (categorical): geophyte (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2023]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnyynnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Doherty_2021; Standish_2019]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): widely_dispersed (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1); none (1) [sources: Doherty_2021]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.05-0.4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231317S. 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/.
NHNSW_20231014N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cheal_201766D. 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.
Standish_201966R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Kubiak_200934P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Doherty_202133M. Doherty. “Fire Severity and Plant Community Dynamics in the Australian Alps, Southeastern New South Wales”. PhD. Australian National University, 2021. url: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224564.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202233S. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Mesaglio_202212T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
OReillyNugent_201822A. O'Reilly-Nugent, E. Wandrag, C. Catford, B. Gruber, D. Driscoll, and R. Duncan. “Measuring competitive impact: Joint-species modelling of invaded plant communities”. Journal of Ecology 108 (2018), pp. 449-459.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.