Eremophila macdonnellii

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila macdonnellii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 14 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bondtia macdonellii Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Bontia macdonnellii (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Eremophila macdonnelli F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Eremophila macdonnelli var. parvifolia F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Eremophila macdonnellii F.Muell. var. macdonnellii (nomenclatural synonym)
Eremophila macdonnellii var. glabra F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila macdonnellii var. glabriuscula J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila macdonnellii var. gracilis J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila macdonnellii var. macrocarpa Ewart & O.B.Davies (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila macdonnellii var. parvifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Eremophila strehlowii E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
Pholidia bickii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Pholidia macdonellii Wettst. (nomenclatural synonym)
Pholidia macdonnellii (F.Muell.) Wettst. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (2), Chinnock_2007 (15), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (24), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (9), Nano_2011 (4), RBGK_2014 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Stephens_2021 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 97 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): resprouts (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 11.75 mm (7-15 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 10.5 mm (8-13 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 18.67 mm (3-35 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.92 mm (1-10 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 172.79 g/m2 (143.55-196.68 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); linear (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); dense (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Dong_2017]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (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): nnnnyyyyyynn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 18.25 mg/g (14.92-27.31 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.56 {delta}[ppth] (-28.53--25.41 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 224.48 mg (2.07-358.61 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3.5-4 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
seed_width (numerical): 1.35 mm (1.2-1.5 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.07 m (0.5-1.5 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Dong_2017	8	24	N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Chinnock_2007	10	15	R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
SAH_2023	10	15	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_2023	6	9	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/.
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/.
Nano_2011	3	4	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.
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/.
ANBG_2019	1	2	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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.
Stephens_2021	1	2	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.