Acrotriche rigida
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Acrotriche rigida B.R.Paterson
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (4), Fonseca_2000 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 67 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 13.37 mm2 (6-27.5 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
- leaf_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (6-11 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.48 mm (1-2.2 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 2 mg (2-2 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.09 cm (0.08-0.1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 198.3 g/m2 (74.63-270.27 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
- leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Fonseca_2000; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyynnn (1); nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2.85 mm (2.85-2.85 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_width (numerical): 2.78 mm (2.78-2.78 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 19 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| NHNSW_2023 | 11 | 16 | 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/. |
| Fonseca_2000 | 5 | 13 | C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 5 | 5 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| ANBG_2019 | 4 | 4 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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_2022 | 3 | 3 | 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/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |