Philotheca queenslandica

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Philotheca queenslandica (C.T.White) P.I.Forst.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eriostemon myoporoides subsp. queenslandicus (C.T.White) Paul G.Wilson (nomenclatural synonym)
Eriostemon queenslandicus C.T.White (basionym)
Philotheca myoporoides subsp. queenslandica (C.T.White) Bayly (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), McCarthy_2017 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 46 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): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1); mericarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 69.66 mm2 (51.25-99.88 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (9-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (1.5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 186.72 g/m2 (168.67-235.77 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1); flat (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): rhizomatous (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.48 mg/mm3 (0.32-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
McCarthy_2017	3	19	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
ABRS_2023	12	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
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.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.