Dicrastylis gilesii

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Dicrastylis gilesii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)

Dicrastyles gilesii F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Dicrastylis gilesii F.Muell. f. gilesii (nomenclatural synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii F.Muell. var. gilesii (nomenclatural synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii f. bagotensis Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii f. brevipila Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii f. densa Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii f. irregularis Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii var. bagotensis Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis gilesii var. laxa Munir (taxonomic synonym)
Dicrastylis petermannensis Munir (taxonomic synonym)

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

Dicrastylis exsuccosa (F.Muell.) Druce (pro parte misapplied)
Dicrastylis ochrotricha F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (9), Nano_2011 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (12), SAH_2022 (12), SAH_2023 (40), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 97 records in 16 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): fire_killed (3); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (6) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 58 mm (25-98 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.5 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.12 cm (0.5-8 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (3); ovate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (5) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (4); subshrub (1) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: NTH_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): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.37 mg (5.37-5.37 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.4 m (0.7-2 m) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	14	40	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	12	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/.
NTH_2023	7	9	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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/.
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.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://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.