AusTraits

Graptophyllum ilicifolium

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Graptophyllum ilicifolium (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Graptophyllum earlii var. ilicifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Graptophyllum earlii var. ilicifolium F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (9), Kooyman_2011 (13), SPRAT_2025_2 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 61 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 18 mm (10-26 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 73.75 mm (10-115 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 38 mm (7-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; SPRAT_2025_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnynnnnn (1); nnnnnnyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; SPRAT_2025_2]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): adventitious_roots (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221617L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
SPRAT_2025_21114F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Cooper_201389W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.