Xanthosia candida
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Family Apiaceae
Taxonomy: Xanthosia candida (Benth.) Steud.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Leucolaena candida Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Xanthosia candida (Benth.) Steud. var. candida (nomenclatural synonym)
- Xanthosia hederifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Xanthosia sp. Fitzgerald (R.D.Royce 9266) (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), Pekin_2011 (5), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Standish_2019 (9), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 48 records in 12 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 (3); resprouts (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 21 mo (21-21 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 15.5 mm (5-26 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (3-20 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 (5) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (3) [sources: Pekin_2011; Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 1.75 a (1.75-1.75 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Pekin_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.1 mg/g (12.1-12.1 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
- leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.5 mg/g (0.5-0.5 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.54 mg (0.54-0.54 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.3-0.5 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. |
| Standish_2019 | 9 | 9 | R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019. |
| 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. |
| Pekin_2011 | 5 | 5 | B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.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/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Schmidt_1993 | 2 | 2 | S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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. |