AusTraits

Boronia rhomboidea

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Boronia rhomboidea Hook.

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

Distribution (APC): NSW, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Jordan_2001 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 63 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1); mericarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 141.37 mm2 (141.37-141.37 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 9.12 mm (3-13 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (1-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); orbicular (2); ovate (1); widely_obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; TMAG_2009]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.93 mg (0.93-0.93 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.81 m (0.15-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
TMAG_20091012Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
NHNSW_2023811N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202368Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Jordan_200155G. 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.
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.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
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.