Rostellularia obtusa
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Family Acanthaceae
Taxonomy: Rostellularia obtusa Nees
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Justicia obtusa (Nees) Lindau (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Justicia peploides (Nees) T.Anderson (misapplied)
- Justicia procumbens var. peploides F.M.Bailey (misapplied)
- Rostellularia peploides (Nees) Nees (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NHNSW_2024 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 40 records in 6 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4.5-6.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NHNSW_2024]
- 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_2024]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2024 | 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 December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 8 | 10 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| Wright_2000 | 10 | 10 | I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |