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Threlkeldia inchoata

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Threlkeldia inchoata (J.M.Black) J.M.Black

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bassia inchoata J.M.Black (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Threlkeldia obliqua J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (6), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_3 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (5), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 78 records in 16 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 17.62 mm (5-36 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (0.5-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); terete (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (3); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022; White_2020]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); hydrochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1); water (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.28 mg (4.28-4.28 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NTH_20231014D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_202366Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_202366S. 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_202355N. 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/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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/.
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/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.