Trachymene scapigera

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Family Araliaceae

Taxonomy: Trachymene scapigera (Domin) B.L.Burtt

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Didiscus scapiger Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Trachymene saniculifolia (Merr.) Stapf (pro parte misapplied)
Trachymene saniculifolia (Merr.) Stapf (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (8), NHNSW_2024 (21), Pickup_2021 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 42 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.35 mm (0.6-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.05 mm (2.5-3.6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 18.25 mm (5-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
leaf_width (numerical): 28.75 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 8.5 cm (3-14 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rosette (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.31 mg (3.31-3.31 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.1-0.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2024	14	21	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	6	8	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickup_2021	3	6	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
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.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.