Sauropus brunonis

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Sauropus brunonis (S.Moore) Airy Shaw

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Phyllanthus brunonis S.Moore (nomenclatural synonym)
Sauropus brunonis (S.Moore) Airy Shaw var. brunonis (nomenclatural synonym)
Sauropus brunonis var. ovatus Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Sauropus sp. 'Melville Is.' (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (2), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 25 records in 9 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2) [sources: Lord_1997; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): ynyyyynnnnyy (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17.28 mg (17.28-17.28 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2014]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RussellSmith_2012	4	8	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_2014	2	2	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.