Bonamia erecta

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Family Convolvulaceae

Taxonomy: Bonamia erecta R.W.Johnson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Breweria rosea var. pluriflora Domin (taxonomic synonym)

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

Bonamia rosea (F.Muell.) Hallier f. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 41 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 12 mm (4-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (3-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); subshrub (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnynnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.23 mg (3.23-3.23 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.4-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	11	14	D. 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/.
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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.