AusTraits

Veronica formosa

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Family Plantaginaceae

Taxonomy: Veronica formosa R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Derwentia formosa (R.Br.) Bayly (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Hebe formosa (R.Br.) Cockayne (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Parahebe formosa (R.Br.) Heads (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 29 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 30.67 mm2 (26-35.34 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 109.38 g/m2 (109.38-109.38 g/m2) [sources: Tng_2013]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.45 {delta}[ppth] (-29.45--29.45 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.31 mg (1.31-1.31 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.79 mm (0.79-0.79 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.69 mg/mm3 (0.69-0.69 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Tng_201355D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Mokany_201522K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
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/.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.