AusTraits

Prostanthera althoferi subsp. longifolia

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Prostanthera althoferi subsp. longifolia B.J.Conn

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Prostanthera sp. B (taxonomic synonym)
  • Prostanthera striatiflora var. sericea Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Prostanthera striatiflora var. servicea Althofer (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Prostanthera baxteri A.Cunn. ex Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Prostanthera baxteri var. crassifolia Benth. (misapplied)
  • Prostanthera baxteri var. crassifolia Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Prostanthera wilkieana F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 8 traits from 11 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
life history

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.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.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.