Boronia gunnii

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Boronia gunnii Hook.f.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Boronia pinnata var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Boronia tetrandra var. grandiflora Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Boronia variabilis var. α Hook. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (13), Collette_2021 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 44 records in 9 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_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_area (numerical): 49.09 mm2 (49.09-49.09 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 16.83 mm (5-32 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.15 mm (0.75-50 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.2 m (1.2-1.2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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.
TMAG_2009	10	12	Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
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.
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.
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.
Mokany_2015	1	1	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.