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Trachymene grandis

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Trachymene grandis (Turcz.) Rye

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Didiscus benthami f. tuberculatus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Didiscus benthamii f. tuberculatus Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Didiscus grandis (Turcz.) F.Muell. ex Schltdl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dimetopia grandis Turcz. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trachymene australis Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Trachymene sp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trachymene sp. A Perth Flora (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trachymene sp. Walpole (A.S.George 15063) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Trachymene anisocarpa (Turcz.) B.L.Burtt (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 22 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_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 40.5 mm (6-75 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 59 mm (8-110 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.92 m (0.2-2.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wheeler_200279J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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.
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.