Vittadinia muelleri

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Vittadinia muelleri N.T.Burb.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (11), Cheal_2017 (4), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_5 (1), Mokany_2015 (2), Morgan_2011_2 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (12), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Williams_2005 (5), Williams_2011 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 103 records in 18 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.38 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1189.09 mm2 (1189.09-1189.09 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 23.25 mm (8-45 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (1-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (2); narrowly_ovate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020; Williams_2011]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (2) [sources: Williams_2005; Williams_2011]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023; Williams_2005]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody_root (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2011]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_system (categorical): biotic_unspecialised (1) [sources: Williams_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (4) [sources: Kew_2019_5; White_2020; Williams_2005; Williams_2011]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Williams_2005]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020; Williams_2005]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Williams_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.61 mg (0.16-0.8 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015; Morgan_2011_2]
seed_length (numerical): 4.48 mm (4.46-4.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.71 mm (0.7-0.72 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.13 m (0.06-0.2 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]
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	10	14	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	10	12	N. 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/.
ANBG_2019	6	11	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Williams_2011	9	9	R. P. Duncan, S. E. Clemants, R. T. Corlett, A. K. Hahs, M. A. McCarthy, M. J. McDonnell, M. W. Schwartz, K. Thompson, P. A. Vesk, and N. S. G. Williams. “Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20.4 (2011), pp. 509-519. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00633.x.
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.
Williams_2005	5	5	N. S. G. Williams, J. W. Morgan, M. J. McDonnell, and M. A. McCarthy. “Plant traits and local extinctions in natural grasslands along an urban-rural gradient”. Journal of Ecology 93.6 (2005), pp. 1203-1213. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01039.x.
Cheal_2017	4	4	D. 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.
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
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/.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Morgan_2011_2	1	1	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait database, La Trobe University”. 2011.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.