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Aegialitis annulata

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Family Plumbaginaceae

Taxonomy: Aegialitis annulata R.Br.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aegialinites annulata (R.Br.) C.Presl (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Statice annulata (R.Br.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_3 (4), McCarthy_2017 (15), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (17), Schmidt_2003 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 65 traits from 111 records in 17 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (45-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3); nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1712.62 mm2 (1222.93-2222.88 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 63.75 mm (30-85 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 48.75 mm (20-70 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 5.5 cm (5.5-5.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 170.65 g/m2 (163.12-177.39 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.07 g/g (0.07-0.07 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (2); trullate (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 19 mg/g (19-19 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.63 {delta}[ppth] (-28.63--28.63 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 250 mg (250-250 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 24.5 mm (4-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 48 mm (48-48 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.51-0.59 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.06 m (0.5-4 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222020L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NTH_20231517D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
McCarthy_2017315J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Schmidt_200388S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Kew_2019_344Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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/.
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.