AusTraits

Rhaphidospora platyphylla

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Rhaphidospora platyphylla (S.Moore) Bremek. ex A.R.Bean

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Justicia platyphylla S.Moore (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Rhaphidospora glabra (J.Koenig ex Roxb.) Nees (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 3 traits from 5 records in 3 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ATRP_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); semi_woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ATRP_202022F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.