Eremophea spinosa

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Family Chenopodiaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophea spinosa (Ewart & O.B.Davies) Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bassia eremaea Ising (taxonomic synonym)
Bassia spinosa Ewart & O.B.Davies (basionym)
Sclerolaena spinosa (Ewart & O.B.Davies) A.J.Scott (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (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 30 traits from 66 records in 18 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) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.05 mm (1.8-2.3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.05 mm (1.8-2.3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 13.33 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (2); oblanceolate (1); obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (4); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnynnyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.8 mg (21.8-21.8 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.1-0.4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	9	13	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/.
ABRS_2023	8	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023	8	9	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_2022	4	4	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/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	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.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2022	3	3	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/.
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).
Draper_2023	2	2	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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.