Premna herbacea

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Premna herbacea Roxb.

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gumira herbacea (Roxb.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Premna acaulis (F.Muell.) Merr. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna humilis Merr. ex Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Premna obovata Merr. (taxonomic synonym)
Premna sessilifolia H.J.Lam (taxonomic synonym)
Premna subacaulis (F.Muell.) Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Pygmaeopremna acaulis (F.Muell.) Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Pygmaeopremna herbacea (Roxb.) Moldenke (nomenclatural synonym)
Pygmaeopremna humilis Merr. (taxonomic synonym)
Pygmaeopremna obovata (Merr.) Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Pygmaeopremna sessilifolia (H.J.Lam) Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Pygmaeopremna subacaulis Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
Tatea acaulis F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Tatea herbacea (Roxb.) L.Junell (nomenclatural synonym)
Tatea humilis (Merr.) L.Junell (taxonomic synonym)
Tatea subacaulis F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (4), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 23 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: Lord_1997; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 43.78 mg (43.78-43.78 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.12 m (0.05-0.2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.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	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	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.
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.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
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.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.