AusTraits

Vitex trifolia

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Vitex trifolia L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2013 (11), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (21), RBGK_2014 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 64 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.

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): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 56.25 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 28.5 mm (14-40 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.25 cm (0.5-6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnyyyyyyyynn (1); yyyyyynnnnyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 21.85 mg (18.4-25.3 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4.14 m (0.5-7 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231521N. 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/.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
RBGK_201412Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.