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Phyllanthus reticulatus

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Phyllanthus reticulatus Poir.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Breynia sp. (=RFK/25658) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Breynia sp. (Black Mountain BH 25658RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Phyllanthus reticulata Poir. (orthographic variant)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. (misapplied)
  • Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. var. ciccoides (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (26), NTH_2014 (11), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 78 records in 13 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
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2); unknown (1) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (9-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); capsule (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2); indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 32 mm (10-65 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 18 mm (7-36 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_woody (2); shrub (4); tree (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1); nnnyyyyyyynn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 7.62 m (1-17 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011926R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_2014811Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
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.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
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.