AusTraits

Vitex trifolia var. trifolia

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Vitex trifolia L. var. trifolia

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Vitex agnus-castus var. trifolia (L.) Kurz (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vitex bicolor Willd. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex negundo var. bicolor (Willd.) H.J.Lam (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex petiolaris Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex trifolia var. acutifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex trifolia var. bicolor (Willd.) Moldenke (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex trifolia var. trifoliata Cham. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vitex trifolia var. trifoliolata Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Vitex negundo L. (misapplied)
  • Vitex triphylla Royle (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 44 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (3) [sources: ATRP_2020; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.75 m (6.5-7 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231218N. 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/.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
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.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.