Trachymene anisocarpa

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Trachymene anisocarpa (Turcz.) B.L.Burtt

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Didiscus anisocarpus (Turcz.) F.Muell. ex Schltdl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Didiscus benthami Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus benthamii Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus benthamii Domin f. benthamii (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus benthamii Domin var. benthamii (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus benthamii var. typicus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Dimetopia anisocarpa Turcz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Trachymene australis Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 97 records in 14 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 (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; White_2020]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 80 mm (30-130 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_shape (categorical): obtriangular (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (6); biennial (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Jordan_2001; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
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]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1 a (1-1 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnyyyyyyyy (1); nnnynnynnnnn (1); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 25 mm (25-25 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.37 m (0.2-2.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_2023	9	13	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	7	9	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
SAH_2022	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/.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.