Phyllanthus ciccoides

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Phyllanthus baccatus F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (22), Nano_2011 (2), WAH_1998 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 34 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Nano_2011]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 38.5 mm (13-64 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 23.5 mm (11-36 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.1-0.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); truncate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: WAH_1998]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	16	22	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/.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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_1998	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.