AusTraits

Euphrasia semipicta

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Euphrasia semipicta W.R.Barker

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Euphrasia brownii F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), SPRAT_2025_2 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 30 records in 6 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
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.6 mm (2.2-3 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
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): 4 a (3-5 a) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody_base (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); root_parasitic (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.08 mg (0.06-0.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.35-0.35 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_21015F. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.