AusTraits

Acrothamnus hookeri

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Acrothamnus hookeri (Sond.) Quinn

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Leucopogon hookeri Sond. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leucopogon obtusatus Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Styphelia hookeri (Sond.) J.J.Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Styphelia hookeri (Sond.) Maiden & Betche (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Leucopogon suaveolens Hook.f. (misapplied)
  • Styphelia montana (R.Br.) F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Styphelia suaveolens (Hook.f.) Warb. (misapplied)
  • Styphelia suaveolens (Hook.f.) Warb. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (2), Campbell_2006 (6), Cheal_2017 (6), Clarke_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Jagdish_2020 (4), Jordan_2001 (7), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (7), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (20), Tolsma_2007 (8), Vesk_2007 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (57). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 59 traits from 168 records in 22 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): fire_killed (2); partial_resprouting (2); resprouts (3) [sources: Campbell_2006; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Tolsma_2007; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (4) [sources: Campbell_2006; Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.45 mm (2.2-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): pink (1); red (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 18.06 mm2 (18.06-18.06 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7.87 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.02 mm (1-2.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.08 cm (0.05-0.12 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 114.61 g/m2 (102.04-135.14 g/m2) [sources: Vesk_2007]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convex (2); flat (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (12) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; RBGV_2022; Tolsma_2007; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Tolsma_2007; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3); woody_root (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Tolsma_2007; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); erect (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (3); vertebrates (1) [sources: Campbell_2006; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (2); ynnnnnnnnyny (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2); basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 7.08 mg (2.05-9.38 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jagdish_2020; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (2.25-2.25 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202057M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231520VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_20231014N. 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/.
Tolsma_200778A. D. Tolsma, S. M. Read, and K. G. Tolhurst. “Roots of Australian alpine plant species contain high levels of stored carbohydrates independent of post-fire regeneration strategy”. Australian Journal of Botany 55.8 (2007), pp. 771-779. doi: 10.1071/BT06216.
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.
NSWFRD_201477B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Campbell_200666M. L. Campbell and P. J. Clarke. “Response of montane wet sclerophyll forest understorey species to fire- evidence from high and low intensity fires”. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 127 (2006), pp. 63-73. doi: unknown.
Cheal_201766D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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.
Vesk_200726P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
Jagdish_202024A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Clarke_200923P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
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.
Mokany_201523K. 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.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ANBG_201912Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.