Trachymene ornata

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Trachymene ornata (Endl.) Druce

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cesatia ornata Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Cesatia ovata Steud. (nomenclatural synonym)
Didiscus eriocarpus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Didiscus ornatus (Endl.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Didiscus ornatus (Endl.) Domin var. ornatus (nomenclatural synonym)
Didiscus ornatus var. semilanatus J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Dimetopia eriocarpa F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Trachymene eriocarpa (F.Muell.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Trachymene ornata (Endl.) Druce var. ornata (nomenclatural synonym)
Trachymene ornata var. semilanata (J.M.Black) H.Eichler (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Dwyer_2017 (23), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2024 (19), SAH_2022 (7), SAH_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 118 records in 17 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]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.95 mm (1.7-5.7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (2.2-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (5) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1); white (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 28.33 mm (10-45 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (5-45 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.8 cm (0.6-3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 27.92 g/m2 (25.93-35.75 g/m2) [sources: Dwyer_2017]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed_deep (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnnnyyyynn (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; 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): 2.06 mg (1.68-2.44 mg) [sources: Dwyer_2017; Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.13 m (0.03-0.2 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Dwyer_2017	3	23	J. M. Dwyer and D. C. Laughlin. “Constraints on trait combinations explain climatic drivers of biodiversity: The importance of trait covariance in community assembly”. Ecology Letters 20.7 (2017), pp. 872-882. doi: 10.1111/ele.12781.
NHNSW_2024	12	19	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/.
SAH_2023	8	19	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/.
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_2014_2	6	8	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	3	7	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/.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
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.