Eremophila acrida
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Taxonomy: Eremophila acrida Chinnock
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Eremophila D41598 MacDonnell Ranges (taxonomic synonym)
- Eremophila sp. (Richmond M.E.Ballingall 2333) (taxonomic synonym)
- Eremophila sp. Macdonnell Ranges (M.J.A.Barritt 693) (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Eremophila elderi F.Muell. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (15), Draper_2023 (3), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (10), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 40 records in 8 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 46.75 mm (22-85 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 10.88 mm (4-23 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2.8 mm (2.8-2.8 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.6-1 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinnock_2007 | 10 | 15 | R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165. |
| NTH_2023 | 7 | 10 | 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | 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/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 2 | 2 | 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. |