Spyridium spathulatum
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Family Rhamnaceae
Taxonomy: Spyridium spathulatum F.Muell. ex Benth.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cryptandra spathulata F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Pomaderris spathulata Reissek (taxonomic synonym)
- Trymalium daphnoides Reissek (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trymalium spathulatum F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 44 records in 8 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]
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): brown (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): spathulate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: SAH_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.56 mg (0.56-0.56 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: SAH_2023]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 19 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| SAH_2023 | 10 | 12 | 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 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203. |
| 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. |