AusTraits

Dipteracanthus australasicus subsp. australasicus

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Dipteracanthus australasicus F.Muell. subsp. australasicus

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dipteracanthus corynothecus var. grandiflorus Bremek. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dipteracanthus primulaceus Bremek. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dipteracanthus primulaceus K.A.W.Williams (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ruellia primulacea F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2024 (3), Nano_2011 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 24 records in 10 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: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (10-17 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); subshrub (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2); woody_base (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); spreading (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.88 m (0.25-1.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Nano_201134C. 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_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_202423N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ATRP_202022F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.