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Plumbago zeylanica

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Family Plumbaginaceae

Taxonomy: Plumbago zeylanica L.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Plumbago zeilanica F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld, CSI, NSW, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Butler_2004 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (5), Kooyman_2011 (12), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 99 records in 21 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.42 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (10-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 30.17 mm (6-60 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.32 cm (0.3-3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); herb (1); shrub (6) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); erect (2); prostrate (1); sprawling (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): animals (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyynnyyyy (1); yyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.64 mg (6.95-11.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.92 m (0.2-1.2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231114N. 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/.
NTH_20231014D. 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/.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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_201389W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kew_2019_615Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Butler_200444D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
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.
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/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
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.