AusTraits

Stackhousia intermedia

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Family Celastraceae

Taxonomy: Stackhousia intermedia F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Stackhousia aphylla Pamp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stackhousia intermedia f. genuina Pamp. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stackhousia tenuissima Pamp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stackhousia viminea var. micrantha Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stackhousia virgata Pamp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stackhousia virgata Pamp. var. virgata (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stackhousia virgata var. elegans Pamp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stackhousia virgata var. typica Pamp. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Stackhousia viminea Sm. (misapplied)
  • Stackhousia viminea Sm. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Chen_2017 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (14), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 58 records in 17 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (0.8-3.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2); schizocarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 40 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.2 mm (0.4-2 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (2); strap-shaped (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyynnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.79 mg (0.38-1.2 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.68 m (0.1-0.8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231214D. 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_202378Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
Chen_201733Chen, 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.
Draper_202333J. 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.
Lord_199733J. 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.
NTH_201433Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.