Euphorbia muelleri

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Euphorbia muelleri Boiss.

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

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (20), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 39 records in 9 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.3 mm (3-3.6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 14 mm (4-24 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 11 mm (4-18 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0.04-0.15 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.96 mg (3.96-3.96 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 1.55 mm (1.3-1.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.4 mm (1.2-1.6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	13	20	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_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.