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Isoglossa eranthemoides

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Isoglossa eranthemoides (F.Muell.) R.M.Barker

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ecbolium eranthemodes Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ecbolium eranthemoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Justicia eranthemoides F.Muell. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (9), NHNSW_2024 (14), SPRAT_2025_2 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 31 records in 6 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: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.98 mg (0.98-0.98 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.2 m (0.2-0.2 m) [sources: NHNSW_2024]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20241114N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_279Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SPRAT_2025_211F. 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.