Triglochin calcitrapa

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Family Juncaginaceae

Taxonomy: Triglochin calcitrapa Hook.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Triglochin calcitrapa Hook. var. calcitrapa (nomenclatural synonym)
Triglochin calcitrapa var. sessiliflora Buchenau (taxonomic synonym)
Triglochin calcitrapum Jessop (orthographic variant)
Triglochin centrocarpa var. calcitrapa (Hook.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), Draper_2023 (3), Leishman_1992 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 85 records in 14 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

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9.8 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (1-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 1.1 mm (1-1.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 67 mm2 (67-67 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1992]
leaf_length (numerical): 43.75 mm (10-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.62 mm (0.2-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (1); insect (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); hydrochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.13 mg (0.13-0.13 mg) [sources: Leishman_1992]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.12 m (0.01-0.18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	9	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Leishman_1992	7	7	M. R. Leishman and M. Westoby. “Classifying plants into groups on the basis of associations of individual traits-Evidence from Australian semi-arid woodlands”. Journal of Ecology 80 (1992), pp. 417-424. doi: 10.2307/2260687.
SAH_2023	5	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/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2022	4	4	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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
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.
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/.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.