Prostanthera incisa

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Prostanthera incisa R.Br.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Prostanthera incisa R.Br. var. incisa (nomenclatural synonym)
Prostanthera incisa var. pubescens F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Prostanthera incisa var. sieberi (Benth.) C.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Prostanthera sieberi Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Prostanthera sp. aff. melissifolia (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Prostanthera violacea R.Br. (misapplied)
Prostanthera violacea var. albiflora Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2009 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (1), Du_2018 (29), Du_2019 (20), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Morgan_2005 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), NSWFRD_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (76). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 188 records in 18 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 (5) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 48 mm2 (48-48 mm2) [sources: Morgan_2005]
leaf_length (numerical): 23.83 mm (8-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.1-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 74.39 g/m2 (40.33-137.36 g/m2) [sources: Du_2018; Morgan_2005]
leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 4.49 mm2/mg (3.22-6.84 mm2/mg) [sources: Du_2018]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); oblong (1); ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (11) [sources: Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (4) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (4) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (4) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (4); nnnnnnnnyyyn (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (4) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.56 mg (0.56-0.56 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.65-0.65 mg/mm3) [sources: Morgan_2005]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.17 m (0.5-3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (4) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	76	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Du_2018	5	29	P. Du, S. K. Arndt, and C. Farrell. “Relationships between plant drought response, traits, and climate of origin for green roof plant selection”. Ecological Applications 28.7 (2018), pp. 1752-1761. doi: 10.1002/eap.1782.
Du_2019	4	20	P. Du, S. K. Arndt, and C. Farrell. “Can the turgor loss point be used to assess drought response to select plants for green roofs in hot and dry climates?”. Plant and Soil 441.1-2 (2019), pp. 399-408. doi: 10.1007/s11104-019-04133-7.
NHNSW_2023	9	13	N. 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/.
RBGV_2023	8	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Morgan_2005	5	5	H. Morgan. “Root system architecture, water use and rainfall responses of perennial species”. PhD. Macquarie University, 2005.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
NSWFRD_2014	4	4	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Clarke_2009	2	2	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Cooper_2013	1	1	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.