Tetragonia microptera
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Family Aizoaceae
Taxonomy: Tetragonia microptera Fenzl
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2024 (9), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 43 records in 7 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): 3.5 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 25 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 16.12 mm (5-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (2); trullate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBGV_2023 | 14 | 18 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2024 | 7 | 9 | N. 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/. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 6 | 8 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| RBGV_2022 | 4 | 4 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 1 | 1 | 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |