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Euphorbia tannensis subsp. eremophila

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Euphorbia tannensis subsp. eremophila (A.Cunn.) D.C.Hassall

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Euphorbia deserticola F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euphorbia eremocarpus Wehmer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euphorbia eremophila A.Cunn. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Euphorbia eremophila A.Cunn. var. eremophila (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Euphorbia eremophila var. genuina Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Euphorbia eremophila var. oblonga Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euphorbia eremophila var. typica Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Euphorbia finlaysonii J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euphorbia tannensis var. eremophila (A.Cunn.) D.C.Hassall (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Euphorbia tannensis var. finlaysonii (J.M.Black) D.C.Hassall (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Euphorbia eremophila A.Cunn. (misapplied)
  • Euphorbia planitiicola D.C.Hassall (misapplied)

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

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (5), NHNSW_2023 (13), Nano_2011 (4), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (24), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 126 records in 17 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); resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.25 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 42.5 mm (5-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4.17 mm (1-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.4-0.4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): cam (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (4); subshrub (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
  • serotiny (categorical): serotiny_high (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (3) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.22 mg (3.4-5.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.88 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201836M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231824VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
NHNSW_20231113N. 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/.
NHNSW_202255N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Nano_201144C. 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.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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/.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.