Notoleptopus decaisnei

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Notoleptopus decaisnei (Benth.) Voronts. & Petra Hoffm.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Andrachne decaisnei Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
Andrachne decaisnei Benth. var. decaisnei (nomenclatural synonym)
Andrachne fruticosa Decne. ex Müll.Arg. (nomenclatural synonym)
Andrachne fruticosa Decne. ex Müll.Arg. var. fruticosa (taxonomic synonym)
Arachne decaisnei (Benth.) Pojark. (nomenclatural synonym)
Leptopus decaisnei (Benth.) Pojark. (nomenclatural synonym)
Leptopus decaisnei (Benth.) Pojark. var. decaisnei (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 58 records in 10 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): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4 mm (3.5-4.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4 mm (3.5-4.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); mericarp (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (7-33 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (6-21 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.85 cm (0.1-1.6 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyynnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.55 mg (1.55-1.55 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	17	23	D. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	10	10	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
WAH_2022_2	4	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. 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.