Eremophila forrestii

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila forrestii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bondtia forrestii Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Bondtia leucophylla Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Bondtia turtonii Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Bontia forrestii (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Bontia leucophylla (Benth.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Bontia turtonii (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila leucophylla Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila sp. 2 aff. leucophylla (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila turtoni F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila turtonii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila xanthotricha Diels (taxonomic synonym)
Pholidia forrestii (F.Muell.) Wettst. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pholidia leucophylla (Benth.) Wettst. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (8), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (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 19 traits from 39 records in 13 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_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 23.5 mm (11-38 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 9.12 mm (4-16 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Chinnock_2007; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); birds (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.58 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	6	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/.
Chinnock_2007	6	8	R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
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.
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/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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/.
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.
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.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.