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Staurogyne spatulata

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Family Acanthaceae

Taxonomy: Staurogyne spatulata (Blume) Koord.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Adenosma spatulata Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Adenosma spatulatum Blume (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ebermaiera glauca Nees (taxonomic synonym)
  • Staurogyne glauca (Nees) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Staurogyne leptocaulis Bremek. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Staurogyne leptocaulis Bremek. subsp. leptocaulis (taxonomic synonym)
  • Staurogyne leptocaulis subsp. decumbens R.M.Barker (taxonomic synonym)
  • Staurogyne spathulata Koord. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NTH_2022 (6), NTH_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 42 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4.5-6.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (5-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.9 cm (0.9-0.9 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (2); obovate (2) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (4); erect (4) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023720D. 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/.
NTH_202236D. 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_236Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
eFLOWER_Dun_202212L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.