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Tribulus hirsutus

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Family Zygophyllaceae

Taxonomy: Tribulus hirsutus Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Kallstroemia hirsuta (Benth.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tribulus alatus Delile (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 47 records in 13 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 26 mm (20-32 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1); schizocarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 14 mm (7-21 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (2.5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.12 cm (0.6-1.65 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); prostrate (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.08 m (0.01-0.15 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_234Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202333D. 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_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
Wenk_2023_211E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.