Spyridium halmaturinum
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Family Rhamnaceae
Taxonomy: Spyridium halmaturinum (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cryptandra halmaturina (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Spyridium halmaturinum (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. var. halmaturinum (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trymalium halmaturinum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Spyridium bifidum (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), SAH_2022 (6), SAH_2023 (26), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 43 records in 7 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
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (1.5-7 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); oblong (2); obtriangular (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1); crowded (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.53 mg (0.53-0.53 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (2) [sources: SAH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAH_2023 | 14 | 26 | S. 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/. |
| SAH_2022 | 3 | 6 | S. 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_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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |