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Euphorbia schultzii

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Euphorbia schultzii Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Chamaesyce schultzii (Benth.) 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: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (21), Nano_2011 (2), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 69 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.55 mm (2.3-2.8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [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]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7 mm (1-14 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (1-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.08 cm (0.05-0.1 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NTH_2014; 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 (5) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (1) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (3); prostrate (2) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyynnnnny (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.3 mg (0.3-0.3 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1.1-1.4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.7-0.9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.15-0.35 m) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231421D. 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/.
SAH_20231316S. 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/.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
SAH_202244S. 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_200644A. 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_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Lord_199733J. 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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.