Synostemon ditassoides

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Synostemon ditassoides (Müll.Arg.) I.Telford & Pruesapan

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Diasperus ditassodes Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Diasperus ditassoides (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Phyllanthus ditassoides Müll.Arg. (nomenclatural synonym)
Sauropus ditassoides (Müll.Arg.) Airy Shaw (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Lord_1997 (3), NTH_2014 (12), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (18), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 48 records in 10 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 (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (7-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): grey (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 19.5 mm (4-35 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18.5 mm (5-32 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (2); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); subshrub (1) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody_base (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 13.9 mg (13.9-13.9 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.45-0.45 m) [sources: NTH_2014; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	13	18	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/.
NTH_2014	9	12	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
Lord_1997	3	3	J. 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_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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.