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Leucas decemdentata

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Leucas decemdentata (Willd.) Sm.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Isodeca flaccida (R.Br.) Raf. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leucas flaccida R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leucas flaccida R.Br. var. flaccida (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leucas javanica Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leucas mollissima Wall. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Phlomis decemdentata Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): ChI, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (9), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 25 records in 7 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
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (1); herb (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): tufted (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_201389W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_202356N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
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.