Teucrium junceum

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Teucrium junceum (A.Cunn. ex Walp.) Kattari & Heubl

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Spartothamnella juncea (A.Cunn. ex Walp.) Briq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Spartothamnus junceus A.Cunn. ex Walp. (nomenclatural synonym)
Spartothamnus junceus A.Cunn. ex Walp. (taxonomic synonym)
Spartothamnus junceus A.Cunn. ex Walp. var. junceus (nomenclatural synonym)
Spartothamnus junceus Loudon (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (4), McCarthy_2017 (8), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (7), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 81 records in 15 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 (2); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 59.12 mm2 (45.17-71.6 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (3-18 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0-0.2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 24.15 g/m2 (21.94-26.17 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.98 mg (6.98-6.98 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 3.05 mm (3.05-3.05 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 2.44 mm (2-2.88 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Butler_2004]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	12	18	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
McCarthy_2017	2	8	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NSWFRD_2014	7	7	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
ANBG_2019	4	4	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Cooper_2013	4	4	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.