Poranthera petalifera
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Family Phyllanthaceae
Taxonomy: Poranthera petalifera (Orchard & J.B.Davies) Halford & R.J.F.Hend.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Oreoporanthera petalifera Orchard & J.B.Davies (basionym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (4), SPRAT_2025_2 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 18 records in 5 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 (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1); trioecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.2 mm (1.2-1.2 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6.5 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.35 mm (1-1.7 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.2-0.3 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 7 | 10 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| Jordan_2001 | 4 | 4 | G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 1 | 1 | 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |