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Veronica ciliolata

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Family Plantaginaceae

Taxonomy: Veronica ciliolata (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chionohebe ciliolata (Hook.f.) B.G.Briggs & Ehrend. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pygmaea ciliolata D.Ratkowsky & A.Ratkowsky (orthographic variant)
  • Pygmea ciliolata Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), SPRAT_2025_2 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 23 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 (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.11 mg (0.11-0.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_2710F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Jordan_200155G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.