Buddleja madagascariensis

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Buddleja madagascariensis Lam.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Buddleia madagascariensis Lam. (orthographic variant)
Nicodemia madagascariensis (Lam.) R.Parker (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kubiak_2009 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (2), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (11), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 58 records in 14 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.62 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): blue (1); purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 83.75 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 33.75 mm (15-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2014]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.75 cm (1-2.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (2); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3.08 m (1.5-4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	13	17	N. 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/.
SAH_2023	8	11	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/.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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/.
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/.
WAH_2022_1	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kubiak_2009	2	2	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
NSWFRD_2014	2	2	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.