Boronia grandisepala
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Family Rutaceae
Taxonomy: Boronia grandisepala F.Muell.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), Brock_1993 (10), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 41 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 (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 36 mm (7-62 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (1.5-14.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.28 cm (0.05-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); sprawling (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (0.5-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 7 | 10 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Brock_1993 | 8 | 10 | J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| 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). |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Rice_1991 | 1 | 1 | B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |