Veronica brownii

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Family Plantaginaceae

Taxonomy: Veronica brownii Roem. & Schult.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Veronica arguta R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Veronica brownei Roem. & Schult. (orthographic variant)
Veronica gracilis var. arguta (R.Br.) C.Moore (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (19), Pickup_2021 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 45 records in 7 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 (4) [sources: Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (4) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.25 mm (3.5-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 8.75 mm (2.5-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.32 cm (0.15-0.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); triangular (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); truncate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): 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): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.18 m (0.1-0.25 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	13	19	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/.
Pickup_2021	3	12	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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	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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.