Adriana tomentosa var. tomentosa

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Adriana tomentosa Gaudich. var. tomentosa

Synonyms: 23 (APC 2026-07-30)

Adriana acerifolia A.Cunn. ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana acerifolia A.Cunn. ex Hook. var. acerifolia (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana acerifolia var. glabrata (Gaudich.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana gaudichaudi Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Adriana gaudichaudii Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
Adriana gaudichaudii Baill. var. gaudichaudii (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata Gaudich. (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata Gaudich. var. glabrata (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata Gaudich. x Adriana quadripartita (Labill.) Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata var. acerifolia (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Pax (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata var. cunninghamii (F.Muell.) Müll.Arg. ex Pax (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata var. heterophylla (Hook.) Pax (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata var. subglabra (Baill.) Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana glabrata var. subglabrata Dunlop (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana heterophylla Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Adriana lessonii Pax (taxonomic synonym)
Adriania acerifolia Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Adriania heterophylla Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Croton acerifolium A.Cunn. ex Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Ricinus tomentosa Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
Trachycaryon cunninghami F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Trachycaryon cunninghamii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Trachycaryon cunninghamii F.Muell. var. cunninghamii (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), Clarke_2015 (2), NSWFRD_2014 (6), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (80). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 136 records in 10 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 (6); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (30-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 82.5 mm (35-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 4.03 cm (0.3-8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_crenate (2); toothed_serrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2); opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): abiotic (4) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1); zoochory (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); ynnyyyyyyyyy (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (5); transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.25 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (4) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	80	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	14	18	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	11	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.