AusTraits

Vitex glabrata

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Vitex glabrata R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Vitex bombacifolia Wall. ex Walp. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex cunninghami Schauer (orthographic variant)
  • Vitex cunninghamii Schauer (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lawes_2012 (1), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (2), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 49 records in 18 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 112.5 mm (40-185 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 65 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyy (1); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 217.39 mg (217.39-217.39 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.56 mg/mm3 (0.49-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10.5 m (3-20 m) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
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.
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.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Ilic_200012J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Nano_201122C. 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.
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/.
Lawes_201211M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.