AusTraits

Duboisia leichhardtii

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Duboisia leichhardtii (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Anthocercis leichhardtii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Duboisia leichhardti F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (21), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (8), Draper_2023 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 62 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 73.75 mm (30-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 15.75 mm (7-28 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.8 cm (0.8-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Draper_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.67 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231521Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Cooper_201358W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Draper_202333J. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Yang_202322S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.