AusTraits

Trichodesma zeylanicum var. zeylanicum

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Family Boraginaceae

Taxonomy: Trichodesma zeylanicum (Burm.f.) R.Br. var. zeylanicum

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Trichodesma zeylanicum subsp. euzeylanicum Brand (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), RussellSmith_2012 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 37 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): fire_killed (2); partial_resprouting (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 70 mm (35-105 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11.59 mg (11.59-11.59 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.12 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2023911N. 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/.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.