Euphorbia tannensis

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Family Euphorbiaceae

Taxonomy: Euphorbia tannensis Spreng.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Euphorbia tanensis F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

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: Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (7), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (29), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 91 records in 16 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 (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Crowley_2007; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 35.42 mm (5-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.32 mm (1-7 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.4 cm (0.4-0.4 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
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): nyyyyyynnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2.88 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; SAH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.85 mm (1.7-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.73 m (0.05-1.5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	21	29	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/.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	12	13	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	7	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. 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.
SAH_2022	4	4	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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
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).
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.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
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.