AusTraits

Eremophila tetraptera

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Eremophila tetraptera C.T.White

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 20 records in 4 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): 50 mm (35-65 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.8 mm (3.5-4.1 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1.2-1.3 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Chinnock_20071015R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
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.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.