Lepidagathis royenii

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Lepidagathis royenii Bremek.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lepidagathis sp. (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidagathis sp. 1 (Massy Creek) (taxonomic synonym)
Lepidagathis sp. Massy Creek (J.R.Clarkson 3602) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 19 records in 4 datasets.

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	7	8	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	7	7	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.