Xanthosia leiophylla

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Xanthosia leiophylla F.Muell. ex Klatt

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Xanthosia dissecta var. floribunda Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

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

Xanthosia dissecta Hook.f. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (4), Draper_2023 (3), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (12), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 64 records in 11 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 5.75 cm (2-12 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_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 (3); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: White_2020]
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): zoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.15 m (0.15-0.15 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	9	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	8	9	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
SAH_2023	3	4	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/.
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/.
SAH_2022	3	3	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	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.