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Euploca leptalea

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Family Boraginaceae

Taxonomy: Euploca leptalea (Craven) M.W.Frohl. & M.W.Chase

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Heliotropium leptaleum Craven (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Heliotropium sp. N (taxonomic synonym)
  • Heliotropium sp. N Kimberley Flora (A.C.Beauglehole 11277) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Heliotropium sp. Wollogorang HS (L.A.Craven 8541) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 8 traits from 14 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.35 mg (0.35-0.35 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.