Myoporum brevipes

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Myoporum brevipes Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Myoporum refractum Maiden & Betche (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Myoporum parvifolium R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Chinnock_2007 (15), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_6 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (13), SAH_2014 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (34). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 70 traits from 126 records in 17 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) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); white (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 22.38 mm (3.5-40 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Chinnock_2007; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_width (numerical): 5.15 mm (1.2-8 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Chinnock_2007; RBGV_2023; SAH_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (2); oblanceolate (2); oblong (2); obovate (2); terete (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Chinnock_2007; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7) [sources: Chinnock_2007; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.66 mg (8.66-8.66 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.79 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	24	34	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Chinnock_2007	10	15	R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
RBGV_2023	11	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	11	12	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2014	2	4	J. P. Jessop and H. R. Toelken. Flora of South Australia, 4th edition, 4 vols. Electronic version curated by J. Kellermann, State Herbarium of South Australia.. Government Printer, Adelaide, 1986.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.