AusTraits

Eremophila fraseri

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila fraseri F.Muell.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bondtia fraseri Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bontia fraseri (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pholidia fraseri (F.Muell.) Wettst. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (15), Ilic_2000 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (2), 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 16 traits from 28 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (12-28 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Chinnock_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.81 mg/mm3 (0.72-0.89 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.88 m (0.5-4 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Chinnock_20071015R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Ilic_200012J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.