Tribulus cistoides
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Family Zygophyllaceae
Taxonomy: Tribulus cistoides L.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Kallstroemia cistoides (L.) Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Tribulus terrestris var. cistoides (L.) Oliv. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Tribulus occidentalis R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)
- Tribulus terrestris L. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, AR, NT, Qld, CSI
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Kew_2019_3 (1), RBGK_2014 (1), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 34 records in 11 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: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 84.94 mg (84.94-84.94 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.18 m (0.05-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 10 | 13 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 3 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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_3 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| RBGK_2014 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Schmidt_1993 | 1 | 1 | S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993. |
| 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. |