Ehretia microphylla
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Family Boraginaceae
Taxonomy: Ehretia microphylla Lam.
Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Carmona heterophylla Cav. (taxonomic synonym)
- Carmona microphylla (Lam.) G.Don (nomenclatural synonym)
- Carmona retusa (Vahl) Masam. (taxonomic synonym)
- Cordia retusa Vahl (taxonomic synonym)
- Ehretia buxifolia Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
- Ehretia buxifolia var. microphylla DC. (taxonomic synonym)
- Ehretia heterophylla (Cav.) Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): ChI, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (9), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 29 records in 5 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 17.5 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): nynnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. 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_2013 | 8 | 9 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |