AusTraits

Scaevola glabrata

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Family Goodeniaceae

Taxonomy: Scaevola glabrata Carolin

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Merkusia ovalifolia var. glabra (R.Br.) de Vriese (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Scaevola ovalifolia var. glabra R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (1), Crowley_2007 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 64 records in 14 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 (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.42 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.4-2.1 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 28.33 mm (8-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 11.67 mm (3-33 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); obovate (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3); toothed (1); toothed_dentate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); subshrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.5 m (0.5-0.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231014D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231013S. 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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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/.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Chen_201711Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201111C. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.