Eremophila platycalyx
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Taxonomy: Eremophila platycalyx F.Muell.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Bondtia platycalyx Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Bontia platycalyx (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Eremophila dielsiana (Kraenzl.) C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)
- Eremophila platycalyx var. lancifolia Kraenzl. (taxonomic synonym)
- Pholidia dielsiana Kraenzl. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (31). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 50 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
- flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 43.5 mm (17-70 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
- leaf_width (numerical): 8.25 mm (2-14.5 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 (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): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 3.22 m (0.9-4 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 24 | 31 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| Chinnock_2007 | 6 | 8 | R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |