Tetracarpaea tasmannica

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Family Haloragaceae

Taxonomy: Tetracarpaea tasmannica Hook.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Tetracarpaea tasmanica Hook. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (30), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (40). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 118 records in 12 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

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 2.5 cm (2-3 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 117.81 mm2 (117.81-117.81 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 26 mm (9-32 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.67 mm (4-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.01 mg (0.01-0.01 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.45 mm (0.4-0.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 0.33 mm (0.16-0.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.2 m (1-1.6 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	32	40	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
eFLOWER_2021	26	30	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.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
TMAG_2009	10	12	Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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.
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.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.