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Roepera billardierei

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Family Zygophyllaceae

Taxonomy: Roepera billardierei (DC.) G.Don

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Roepera billardieri Beier & Thulin (orthographic variant)
  • Roepera billardierii G.Don (orthographic variant)
  • Zygophyllum billardierei DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zygophyllum billardierei DC. var. billardierei (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zygophyllum billardierei var. stenophyllum F.Muell. ex Diels & E.Pritz. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Zygophyllum billardieri F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zygophyllum billardieri var. stenophyllum Diels & E.Pritz. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Zygophyllum billardierii DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Zygophyllum ammophilum F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_3 (3), Mokany_2015 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (10), TMAG_2009 (10), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (23). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 109 records in 17 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9.92 mm (5.5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (4-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 117.81 mm2 (117.81-117.81 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 17.12 mm (4-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (0.5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.15-0.95 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); linear (1); narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_obovate (1); oblong (3); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2); c4 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3; Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); herb (4); shrub (3); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; TMAG_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; TMAG_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); semi_woody (1); woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): scrambling (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2); decumbent (2); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; White_2020]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); barochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); ants (1); passive (1); wind (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyy (1); yynnnnnyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.97 mg (2.97-2.97 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202323M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231319Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_20231016VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2023810S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
TMAG_2009910Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_333Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mokany_201533K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
SAH_202233S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.