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Dodonaea lanceolata

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Dodonaea lanceolata F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dodonaea lanceloata K.A.W.Williams (orthographic variant)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (5), Chen_2017 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (17), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), 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 37 traits from 93 records in 19 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); polygamous (1); trioecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 16.75 mm (13-19 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 16.5 mm (14-19 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 54.67 mm (13-105 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 16.33 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.59 cm (0.2-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2); oblanceolate (2); oblong (2); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.97 mm (2.97-2.97 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.3 mm (2.3-2.3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.88 m (1-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231319Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231317N. 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/.
NTH_20231012D. 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/.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ANBG_201955Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Sweedman_200622L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.