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Boronia pilosa

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Boronia pilosa Labill.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Boronia pilosa var. α Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Boronia pinnata var. pilosa F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Boronia tetrandra var. pilosa (Labill.) Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic, Tas

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), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (24), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 125 records in 18 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 (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2); mericarp (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 69.18 mm2 (69.18-69.18 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 8.82 mm (1-22 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4.24 mm (0.5-34 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014; TMAG_2009]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.19 cm (0.15-0.2 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (3); terete (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1); decussate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; 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 (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • 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): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1); yynnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009; 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): 0.5 mg (0.5-0.5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231724VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SAH_20231315S. 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/.
ABRS_2023713Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
TMAG_20091012Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_201566M. 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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_201424J. 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.
SAH_202244S. 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/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202333J. 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.
Mokany_201522K. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.