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Hemigenia humilis

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Hemigenia humilis Benth.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Hemiandra glabrescens Hopper, S.J.van Leeuwen, A.P.Br. & S.J.Patrick (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hemigenia aff. sericea (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hemigenia glabrescens Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Hemigenia sp. Albany (G.J.Keighery 8712) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (1), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 39 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 23.25 mm (8-45 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.12 mm (2-10 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.04 mg (1.04-1.04 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.18 m (0.2-1.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wheeler_2002820J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
WAH_2022_248Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_213Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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.
Barrett_200911S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.