AusTraits

Euploca bracteata

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Family Boraginaceae

Taxonomy: Euploca bracteata (R.Br.) M.W.Frohl. & M.W.Chase

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Heliotropium bracteatum R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Heliotropium bracteatum R.Br. var. bracteatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Heliotropium laxiflorum Roth (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Brock_1993 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 25 records in 9 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
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 16 mm (4-28 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (1-7 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.34 mg (0.08-0.6 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Lord_1997]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.38 m (0.25-0.5 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Sjostrom_200611A. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.