Synostemon rigidulus
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Family Phyllanthaceae
Taxonomy: Synostemon rigidulus (F.Muell. ex Müll.Arg.) I.Telford & Pruesapan
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Diasperus rigidulus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
- Phyllanthus rigidulus Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
- Sauropus rigidulus (Müll.Arg.) Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
- Sauropus sp. Cockburn Range (D.Dureau 81) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 26 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1); trioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); subshrub (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 8 | 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. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |