Eremophila margarethae
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Taxonomy: Eremophila margarethae S.Moore
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Eremophila sp. Ophthalmia Range (D.Brearley s.n. 20/3/2004) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (15), Munroe_2019 (1), Pate_1998 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 37 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.
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): 27 mm (12-42 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Pate_1998]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Chinnock_2007; Pate_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Pate_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.14 {delta}[ppth] (-26.14--26.14 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 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): 0.82 m (0.3-1.2 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; WAH_2023_2]
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. |
| Pate_1998 | 6 | 6 | J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |