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Adriana quadripartita

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Adriana quadripartita (Labill.) Müll.Arg.

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Adriana billardierei Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Adriana bloudowskyana Pax (taxonomic synonym)
  • Adriana klotzchii J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Adriana klotzschii (F.Muell.) Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Adriana labillardierei (Klotzsch) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Croton quadripartitum Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Croton quadripartitus Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Meialisa australis Raf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Trachycaryon billardieri Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trachycaryon klotzschii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Trachycaryon labillardierei Klotzsch (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), Cheal_2017 (6), Draper_2023 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Pickup_2021 (3), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (15), SAH_2022 (10), SAH_2023 (39), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (78), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (25). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 224 records in 20 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Draper_2023; SAH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3); mericarp (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 81.25 mm (20-125 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 34.5 mm (5-60 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (4); obovate (1); ovate (3); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (1); toothed_crenate (3); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (12) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); open (1); spreading (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (4); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (1); endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (5) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): animals (1); ants (1); invertebrates (4); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnynnnnnn (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (4) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.92 mg (21.92-21.92 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4.5-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202078M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_20231939S. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221725L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
RBGV_20231215VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2022510S. 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/.
Cheal_201766D. 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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202344J. 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_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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Pickup_202133M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.