AusTraits

Tetragonia eremaea

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Family Aizoaceae

Taxonomy: Tetragonia eremaea Ostenf.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (22), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_3 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2024 (11), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (20), SAH_2022 (1), SAH_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 139 records in 19 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6.62 mm (3-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 6.33 mm (3-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 44.17 mm (10-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 18 mm (4-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.92 cm (0.2-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (3); ovate (2); rhomboidal (4); trullate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2); cam (2) [sources: Kew_2019_3; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • 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): prostrate (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; White_2020]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1); zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2); water (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (3) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.39 mg (9.39-9.39 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202040M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231722Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231420VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024911N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2023811S. 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_2014_268Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_322Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SAH_202211S. 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/.
Sjostrom_200611A. 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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.