Vittadinia australasica

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Vittadinia australasica (Turcz.) N.T.Burb.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diplopappus australasicus Turcz. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Vittadinia australis A.Rich. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic, Tas

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (15), SAH_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 73 records in 13 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

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.88 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 19 mm (8-30 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): recurved (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.19 m (0.1-0.3 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	11	15	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	4	7	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
SAH_2023	4	5	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.
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/.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.