AusTraits

Eremophila obovata subsp. obovata

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila obovata L.S.Sm. subsp. obovata

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eremophila obovata L.S.Sm. var. obovata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eremophila sp. Gibson Desert (J.S.Beard 4906) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eremophila strongylophylla F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: RussellSmith_2012 (4), 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 9 traits from 13 records in 5 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
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.2-0.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.