Synostemon glaucus
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Family Phyllanthaceae
Taxonomy: Synostemon glaucus F.Muell.
Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Diasperus adami Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Diasperus adamii (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Glochidion adamii Beard (taxonomic synonym)
- Phyllanthus adami Müll.Arg. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Phyllanthus adamii Müll.Arg. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Phyllanthus glaucus (F.Muell.) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Phyllanthus udami W.Fitzg. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Phyllanthus udamii A.D.Chapm. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sauropus glaucus (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sauropus sp. 'Tiwi' (taxonomic synonym)
- Sauropus torridus J.T.Hunter & J.J.Bruhl (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sauropus ochrophyllus (Benth.) Airy Shaw (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2014 (5), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 39 records in 11 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): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 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): 9 mm (4-14 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.55 mm (0.5-0.6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (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 (2); subshrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); semi_woody (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.3-0.5 m) [sources: NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 12 | 15 | 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 | 4 | 5 | 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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). |
| NTH_2022 | 2 | 2 | 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/. |
| 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. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| 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. |