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Lagerstroemia archeriana

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Family Lythraceae

Taxonomy: Lagerstroemia archeriana F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lagerstroemia archeriana F.M.Bailey subsp. archeriana (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lagerstroemia archeriana var. glabrescens F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Murtughas archerian W.E.Cooper (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Murtughas archeriana (F.M.Bailey) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lagerstroemia engleriana Koehne (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (6), ABRS_2023 (20), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 76 records in 15 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 16.5 mm (15-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.7 cm (0.7-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnnn (1); yyyynnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.34 mg (4.34-4.34 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 13.44 m (2.5-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231120Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
ABRS_202236Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.