Euploca ventricosa

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Family Boraginaceae

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

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Heliotropium ventricosum R.Br. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (6), Brock_1993 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Nano_2011 (2), 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 18 traits from 34 records in 11 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

fruit morphology

fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Lord_1997; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnyy (1); yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.41 mg (0.23-0.6 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 1.03 mm (1.03-1.03 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 0.79 mm (0.79-0.79 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.21 m (0.1-0.35 m) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Brock_1993	8	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ANBG_2019	5	6	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. 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.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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.
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.
Sjostrom_2006	1	1	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_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.