AusTraits

Macarthuria vertex

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Family Limeaceae

Taxonomy: Macarthuria vertex Lepschi

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Macarthuria sp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Macarthuria sp. A Kimberley Flora (A.S.George 13767) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (22), Crowley_2007 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (16), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 70 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.

fire response
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; Yang_2023]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (2-81 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.27 mm (0.3-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); ovate (1); spathulate (1); subulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (2); leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (4); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); prostrate (3); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.62 mm (1.3-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): comma-shaped (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.64 m (0.45-0.7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231622Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_20231016D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.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.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201111C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
Yang_202311S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.