AusTraits

Flueggea virosa subsp. melanthesoides

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Flueggea virosa subsp. melanthesoides (F.Muell.) G.L.Webster

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Flueggea melanthesioides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Flueggea melanthesoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Flueggea virosa f. reticulata Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Flueggea virosa var. aridicola Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leptonema melanthesioides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptonema melanthesoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Securinega melanthesioides W.E.Cooper (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Securinega melanthesoides (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Securinega melanthesoides (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw var. melanthesoides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Securinega melanthesoides var. aridicola (Domin) Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Flueggea microcarpa Blume (misapplied)
  • Securinega obovata (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2014 (10), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), 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 17 traits from 29 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 75.5 mm (26-125 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 39 mm (15-63 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3); bud-bearing_root (2); rhizome (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.48 m (0.9-5 m) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2014810Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.