Platytheca galioides

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Platytheca galioides Steetz

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Platytheca crassifolia Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
Platytheca crucianella Steetz (taxonomic synonym)
Platytheca galioides Steetz var. galioides (nomenclatural synonym)
Platytheca galioides var. crassifolia (Steetz) Diels & E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
Platytheca galioides var. pubescens Schuch. (taxonomic synonym)
Tetratheca speciosa Walp. (taxonomic synonym)
Tetratheca verticillata Paxton (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Platytheca verticillata (Walp.) Baill. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Pekin_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 67 records in 14 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): fire_killed (2); resprouts (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Pekin_2011]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (3-16 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Pekin_2011]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Pekin_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2); none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.51 mg (5.51-5.51 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.2-0.9 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	22	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Pekin_2011	4	4	B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.