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Eremophila oldfieldii

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila oldfieldii F.Muell.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bondtia oldfieldii Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bontia oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pholidia oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Wettst. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stenochilus oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Kraenzl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (15), Collette_2021 (1), Ilic_2000 (2), Shedley_2007 (1), 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 18 traits from 33 records in 11 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): 70 mm (30-110 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.3 mm (1.1-9.5 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 (4); tree (2) [sources: Chinnock_2007; Shedley_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): nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.4 mm (2.3-2.5 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.05 mm (1-1.1 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.74 mg/mm3 (0.72-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (1-6 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.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Shedley_200711E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
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.