Ursinia anthemoides
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Ursinia anthemoides (L.) Poir.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Arctotis anthemoides L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Dwyer_2017 (13), Munroe_2019 (1), Standish_2019 (7), Stephens_2021 (1), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), vanderMoezel_1987 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 48 records in 12 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 (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; vanderMoezel_1987]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: vanderMoezel_1987]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
leaf morphology
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 33.98 g/m2 (30.23-36.94 g/m2) [sources: Dwyer_2017]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1 a (1-1 a) [sources: Burrows_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.43 mg (1.42-1.43 mg) [sources: Dwyer_2017; Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.1-0.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwyer_2017 | 3 | 13 | J. M. Dwyer and D. C. Laughlin. “Constraints on trait combinations explain climatic drivers of biodiversity: The importance of trait covariance in community assembly”. Ecology Letters 20.7 (2017), pp. 872-882. doi: 10.1111/ele.12781. |
| Standish_2019 | 7 | 7 | R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 5 | 5 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Burrows_2020 | 5 | 5 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| 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/. |
| vanderMoezel_1987 | 4 | 4 | P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132. |
| WAH_2022_1 | 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. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |