Acrothamnus montanus

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Acrothamnus montanus (R.Br.) Quinn

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leucopogon montanus (R.Br.) J.H.Willis (nomenclatural synonym)
Lissanthe montana R.Br. (basionym)
Styphelia montana (R.Br.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Cheal_2017 (6), Clarke_2015 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), Lim_2017 (76), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Morgan_2014 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (15), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (57). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 213 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.05 mm (1.8-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 32.41 mm2 (6-132.14 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Morgan_2014; Pickering_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 8.07 mm (4.5-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.12 mm (1.2-2.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.09 cm (0.05-0.13 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 158.43 g/m2 (104.02-249.48 g/m2) [sources: Lim_2017; Pickering_2014]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.52 g/g (0.52-0.52 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convex (1); flat (1) [sources: NHNSW_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 (3) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (10) [sources: Lim_2017; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (1); erect (1) [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) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (3); yyynnnnnnnnn (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (4) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (3) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.69 mg (7.18-12.2 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Morgan_2014]
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]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.71 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.86 mg/mm3) [sources: Lim_2017]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 6.98 um (6.98-6.98 um) [sources: Lim_2017]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.08 mm2/mm2 (0.08-0.08 mm2/mm2) [sources: Lim_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.35-0.5 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (3) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Lim_2017	7	76	F. K. Lim, L. J. Pollock, and P. A. Vesk. “The role of plant functional traits in shrub distribution around alpine frost hollows”. Journal of Vegetation Science 28.3 (2017), pp. 585-594. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12517.
White_2020	19	57	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	11	15	N. 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/.
RBGV_2023	9	12	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	B. 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.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. 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.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. 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_2015	6	6	M. 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.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. 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/.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Mokany_2015	1	2	K. 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.
Morgan_2014	2	2	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from Victorian alpine plant species, La Trobe University”. 2004.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.