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Viola fuscoviolacea

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Family Violaceae

Taxonomy: Viola fuscoviolacea (L.G.Adams) T.A.James

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Viola hederacea subsp. fuscoviolacea L.G.Adams (basionym)
  • Viola sp. A (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Cheal_2017 (8), Jordan_2001 (5), Mokany_2015 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (2), NHNSW_2023 (16), NSWFRD_2014 (2), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (60). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 54 traits from 166 records in 17 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 80.92 mm2 (48.75-113.1 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Pickering_2014]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7.12 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.83 cm (0.5-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 38.36 g/m2 (38.36-38.36 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.02 g/g (0.02-0.02 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (4); rhomboidal (3); widely_ovate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (3); cuneate (3); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (10) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): stoloniferous (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (3); yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyynnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; TMAG_2009; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.72 mg (0.72-0.72 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202060M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231621Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231317VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231216N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
TMAG_20091012Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Cheal_201788D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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.
Pickering_201444C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
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.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202222N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_201422B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.