Glossocarya hemiderma

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Glossocarya hemiderma (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Clerodendron hemiderma Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Clerodendrum hemiderma F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Clerodendrum linnaei Thwaites (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (23), ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2012 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (16). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 82 records in 12 datasets.

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

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.12 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); mericarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (20-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 47.5 mm (15-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.2-1.1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (4); shrub (3); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.64 mg (1.64-1.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4.5 m (3-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	17	23	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	15	16	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gallagher_2012	2	2	R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.