AusTraits

Euphrasia fragosa

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Euphrasia fragosa W.R.Barker

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Euphrasia sp. 'Southport' (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euphrasia sp. 2 (Southport) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euphrasia sp. Southport (W.M.Curtis 5/12/58) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (6), SPRAT_2025_2 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 27 records in 5 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): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 75 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
  • lifespan (numerical): 2 a (1-3 a) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody_base (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); root_parasitic (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): self (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.25-0.3 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_21014F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Jordan_200166G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
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.