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Asterolasia grandiflora

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Asterolasia grandiflora (Hook.) Benth.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Asterolasia nivea (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Eriostemon grandiflorus (Hook.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Phebalium grandiflorum Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Urocarpus grandiflorus (Hook.) Paul G.Wilson (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Urocarpus niveus Paul G.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (25), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Collette_2021 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_1 (9), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 79 records in 13 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2); mericarp (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 13.17 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (3-11 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (2); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (2); revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2.5 a (2.5-2.5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (2) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.91 mg (3.84-3.98 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.42 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231225Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_179Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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_248Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202245Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_255N. 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_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
WAH_2023_214Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_133Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Collette_202112J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.