Tecticornia halocnemoides subsp. tenuis

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Tecticornia halocnemoides subsp. tenuis (Paul G.Wilson) K.A.Sheph. & Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Halosarcia halocnemoides subsp. tenuis Paul G.Wilson (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (6), NTH_2014 (13), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2023 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), 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 20 traits from 40 records in 10 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_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): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: NTH_2014; Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed_shape (categorical): discoid (1); orbicular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2014; SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2014	10	13	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
ABRS_2023	6	6	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
SAH_2023	4	4	S. 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_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.
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.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.