Trachymene composita var. composita

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Trachymene composita (Domin) B.L.Burtt var. composita

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Didiscus compositus Domin f. compositus (nomenclatural synonym)
Didiscus compositus Domin var. compositus (nomenclatural synonym)
Didiscus compositus f. macrocarpus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus compositus f. microcarpus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus compositus var. typicus Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Trachymene anisocarpa 'typical form' (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), NHNSW_2024 (11), RBGV_2022 (2), RBGV_2023 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 40 records in 8 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.38 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.55 mm (2.1-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

petiole_length (numerical): 20 cm (20-20 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (1); biennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (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): 1.61 mg (1.61-1.61 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2.5-2.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2024	7	11	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/.
RBGV_2023	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	2	2	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.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.