Eremophila christophori
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Taxonomy: Eremophila christophori F.Muell.
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Bondtia christophori Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Bontia christophori (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Eremophila castelli-arminii E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eremophila christopheri Chippend. (orthographic variant)
- Eremophila christophorii Barlow (orthographic variant)
- Pholidia christophori (F.Muell.) Kraenzl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (7), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 44 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
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 6.25 mm (4-8.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 18.88 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2.5-8.5 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblanceolate (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): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2.75 m (2.5-3 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 8 | 12 | 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/. |
| Chinnock_2007 | 6 | 8 | R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165. |
| Nano_2011 | 6 | 7 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| 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/. |
| 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). |
| 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. |