Dicrastylis costelloi

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Dicrastylis costelloi F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dicrastylis costelloi F.M.Bailey var. costelloi (nomenclatural synonym)
Dicrastylis costelloi var. eriantha (F.Muell.) Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis costelloi var. globulifera Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis costelloi var. violacea Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis dorani var. eriantha F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis doranii var. eriantha F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dicrastylis doranii F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)
Dicrastylis doranii F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (3), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (16), SAH_2022 (12), SAH_2023 (26), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 72 records in 12 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 (4) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 3.15 mm (3-3.3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.15 mm (3-3.3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (4) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.97 mg (5.97-5.97 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.4-0.75 m) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	11	26	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/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	16	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
SAH_2022	3	12	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/.
ANBG_2019	2	3	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. 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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
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/.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
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.