Pityrodia jamesii
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Family Lamiaceae
Taxonomy: Pityrodia jamesii Specht
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (1), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (1), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 37 records in 11 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (5-35 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.27 g/g (0.27-0.27 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15 mg/g (15-15 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.25 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: Brock_1993]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brock_1993 | 9 | 12 | J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246. |
| Schmidt_2003 | 7 | 7 | S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. 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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | 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/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 2 | 2 | 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. |
| Crowley_2007 | 1 | 1 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Nano_2011 | 1 | 1 | 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. |
| Rice_1991 | 1 | 1 | B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |