Euphorbia mitchelliana

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Euphorbia mitchelliana Boiss.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (2), SAH_2022 (1), SAH_2023 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (4), 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 28 traits from 43 records in 12 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): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); mericarp (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c4 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); subshrub (1) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); sprawling (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1.55 mm (1.2-1.9 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.6-0.9 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.2-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	16	21	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/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
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.
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/.
NTH_2022	2	2	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NTH_2023	2	2	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
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.
SAH_2022	1	1	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/.
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.