Boronia filifolia

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Boronia filifolia F.Muell.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (19), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 95 records in 15 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

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2); mericarp (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 17.96 mm (3-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.72 mm (0.5-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.2-0.8 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (3); narrowly_obovate (3); terete (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3); simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.73 mg (1.73-1.73 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.62 m (0.5-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	14	19	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	7	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023	12	13	S. 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/.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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_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.
SAH_2014	2	4	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.