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Phyla nodiflora

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Family Verbenaceae

Taxonomy: Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Blairia nodiflora (L.) Gaertn. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lippia nodiflora var. normalis Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Platonia nodiflora (L.) Raf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Platonia nudiflora Raf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Verbena nodiflora L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zapania nodiflora Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zappania nodiflora (L.) Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (native and naturalised), CoI (naturalised), NT, Qld, NSW (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_6 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (18), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (13), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (15), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (32). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 113 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.

flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.67 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.38 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 37 mm (10-72 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.83 mm (3-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.1-0.8 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblanceolate (2); obovate (3); spathulate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (2); prostrate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.36 mg (0.23-0.52 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222532L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20231218N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_20231215S. 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/.
NTH_2023913D. 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/.
Kew_2019_615Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_344Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. 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/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.