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Phyllanthus maderaspatensis

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Phyllanthus maderaspatensis L.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Phyllanthus brachypodus Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Phyllanthus maderaspatanus Benth. (orthographic variant)
  • Phyllanthus maderaspatensis var. thonningii Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (7), Kew_2019_6 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), NTH_2014 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (20), Nano_2011 (2), SAH_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40), Wright_2000 (4), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 64 traits from 151 records in 23 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); grey (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 23.75 mm (8-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2014; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.33 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0.1-0.1 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (2); obtuse (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1); flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (2); not_glaucous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (3); subshrub (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4); biennial (2); perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); hydrochory (1); zoochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); invertebrates (2); vertebrates (1); water (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyyynn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyyyynnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2014; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.57 mg (0.25-1.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.33 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202040M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NTH_20231820D. 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/.
SAH_20231617S. 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/.
NHNSW_20231214N. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221111L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kew_2019_117Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wright_200044I. 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.
Draper_202333J. 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.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
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/.
SAH_202233S. 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_201422Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Nano_201122C. 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_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
SAH_201411J. 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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.