Clerodendrum tatei

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Clerodendrum tatei (F.Muell.) Munir

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Clerodendron holtzei F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Clerodendrum holtzei F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Strobilanthes tatei F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 27 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); subshrub (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Lord_1997; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 39.2 mg (39.2-39.2 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.25-0.25 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Brock_1993	8	10	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.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.
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).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
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.