Prostanthera scutellarioides

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Prostanthera scutellarioides (R.Br.) Briq.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chilodia scutellarioides R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Prostanthera empetrifolia Sieber ex Spreng. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Clarke_2009 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), NSWFRD_2014 (18), Ooi_2007 (101), Pickup_2021 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 167 records in 13 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 (4); resprouts (4) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (12-36 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

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

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 15.5 mm (6-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (0.5-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.02 cm (0-0.05 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); shrub (7) [sources: Clarke_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (3) [sources: Benwell_2024; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (2) [sources: Collette_2021; Ooi_2007]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); basal_stem_buds (2); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.27 mg (0.12-0.46 mg) [sources: Ooi_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.4 m (0.3-2.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Ooi_2007	2	101	M. K. J. Ooi, P. Myerscough, and T. Auld. “Unpublished data: Longterm seed mass field campaign, University of New South Wales”. 2007.
NSWFRD_2014	10	18	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.
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/.
Clarke_2009	4	8	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.
Pickup_2021	5	5	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.