Mesosphaerum suaveolens
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Family Lamiaceae
Taxonomy: Mesosphaerum suaveolens (L.) Kuntze
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Ballota suaveolens L. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Bystropogon suaveolens (L.) L'Hér. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Hyptis congesta Leonard (taxonomic synonym)
- Hyptis shaferi Britton (taxonomic synonym)
- Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Schaueria suaveolens (L.) Hassk. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 24 records in 8 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Lord_1997; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5 mg (5-5 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.88 m (0.5-3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper_2013 | 8 | 9 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Lord_1997 | 3 | 3 | J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Nano_2011 | 2 | 2 | C. 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_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |