AusTraits

Pomax sp. Sand dunes (P.G.Wilson 752)

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Pomax sp. Sand dunes (P.G.Wilson 752) NT Herbarium

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pomax sp. desert (A.S.George 11968) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pomax umbellata (Gaertn.) Sol. ex A.Rich. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), 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 19 traits from 33 records in 8 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (8-32 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (2-9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (3); subshrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1); rhizome (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.1-0.4 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231115D. 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/.
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/.
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_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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.