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Trachymene didiscoides

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Trachymene didiscoides (F.Muell.) B.L.Burtt

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Didiscus hemicarpus F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Didiscus hemicarpus F.Muell. var. hemicarpus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Didiscus hemicarpus var. major (Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Didiscus hemicarpus var. typicus Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Didiscus setulosus F.Muell. ex Schltdl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hemicarpus didiscoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trachymene hemicarpa Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trachymene hemicarpa Benth. var. hemicarpa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trachymene hemicarpa var. major Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trachymene setulosa Druce (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2022 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 25 records in 10 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_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); biennial (2); perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (0.5-2.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
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.
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/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Sweedman_200622L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
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.