Utricularia multifida
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Family Lentibulariaceae
Taxonomy: Utricularia multifida R.Br.
Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cosmiza coccinea Raf. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cosmiza multifida (R.Br.) Barnhart (nomenclatural synonym)
- Polypompholyx endlicheri Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
- Polypompholyx latiloba (Benth.) Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
- Polypompholyx multifida (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Tetralobus preissii A.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
- Utricularia latiloba Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Utricularia multifida R.Br. var. multifida (nomenclatural synonym)
- Utricularia multifida var. hugeliana A.DC. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Utricularia preissii A.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
- Utricularia similis Lehm. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 34 records in 9 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 (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 6 mo (6-6 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): annual (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 0.5 a (0.5-0.5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.19 m (0.05-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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. |