Eremophila serrulata

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila serrulata (A.Cunn. ex A.DC.) Druce

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bondtia serrulata Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Bontia serrulata (A.Cunn. ex A.DC.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Eremophila latifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Stenochilus serrulatus A.Cunn. ex A.DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Stenochilus serrulatus A.Cunn. ex A.DC. var. serrulatus (nomenclatural synonym)
Stenochilus serrulatus var. lyndhurstiana Kraenzl. (taxonomic synonym)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (5), Chinnock_2007 (15), Collette_2021 (1), Crowley_2007 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_3 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Nano_2011 (1), RBGK_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 101 records in 23 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.25 mm (3.5-9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (3.5-9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6.25 mm (3.5-9 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 37 mm (11-60 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.67 mm (6-22 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (2); ovate (2) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Kew_2019_3; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); vertebrate (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); birds (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyynnn (1); nnnyyyyyyynn (1); nnyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_1998; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 30.06 mg (23.33-36.79 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 4.28 mm (2.5-6.07 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Chinnock_2007]
seed_width (numerical): 3.06 mm (0.8-5.32 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Chinnock_2007]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019; Chinnock_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.97 m (0.25-2.5 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	11	16	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Chinnock_2007	10	15	R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
SAH_2023	7	10	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	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Kew_2019_3	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
Crowley_2007	1	1	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Nano_2011	1	1	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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.