Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

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Family Verbenaceae

Taxonomy: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Abena jamaicensis (L.) Hitchc. (nomenclatural synonym)
Stachytarpheta bogoriensis Zoll. & Moritzi (taxonomic synonym)
Stachytarpheta friedrichsthalii Hayek (taxonomic synonym)
Stachytarpheta indica var. jamaicensis (L.) Razi (nomenclatural synonym)
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis f. albiflora Standl. (taxonomic synonym)
Stachytarpheta marginata Vahl (taxonomic synonym)
Stachytarpheta pilosiuscula Kunth (taxonomic synonym)
Stachytarpheta villosa Turcz. (taxonomic synonym)
Valerianoides jamaicense (L.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Verbena jamaicensis L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Zappania jamaicensis (L.) Lam. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Stachytarpheta indica (L.) Vahl (misapplied)
Stachytarpheta indica (L.) Vahl (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Cooper_2013 (11), Metcalfe_2009 (19), NTH_2022 (3), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 62 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 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1); nut (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2700 mm2 (2700-2700 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.75 cm (0.5-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.82 mg (0.82-0.82 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.32 mg/mm3 (0.32-0.32 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.12 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2009	19	19	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
ABRS_2023	13	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.