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Tribulus sp. saline flats (P.K.Latz 4530)

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Family Zygophyllaceae

Taxonomy: Tribulus sp. saline flats (P.K.Latz 4530) R.M.Barker

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tribulus ? occidentalis (smaller flowers and fruits) K.L.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tribulus A49319 Rabbit Flat NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tribulus sp. Rabbit Flat (P.K.Latz 4530) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 30 records in 6 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_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • 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
life history

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.
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.
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_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_222Western 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.