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Andersonia lehmanniana

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Andersonia lehmanniana Sond.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Andersonia sprengelioides var. lehmanniana (Sond.) Diels & E.Pritz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Andersonia sprengelioides R.Br. (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Enright_2014 (15), Hutton_1994 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wilson_2004 (3), vanderMoezel_1987 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 46 records in 14 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 (8); resprouts (2) [sources: Enright_2014; Standish_2019; Wilson_2004; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (7) [sources: Enright_2014]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): ericoid_mycorrhizal (2) [sources: Hutton_1994; Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyynnnn (1); nnnnyyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998; vanderMoezel_1987]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Enright_2014; Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.16-0.2 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.38 m (0.15-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Enright_2014315N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wilson_200423B. A. Wilson, J. Kuehs, L. E. Valentine, T. Sonneman, and K. M. Wolfe. “Guidelines for ecological burning regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems: a case study in Banksia woodlands in Western Australia”. Pacific Conservation Biology 20.1 (2014), p. 57. doi: 10.1071/pc140057.
vanderMoezel_198733P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
Sweedman_200622L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Hutton_199411B. J. Hutton, K. W. Dixon, and K. Sivasithamparam. “Ericoid endophytes of Western Australian heaths (Epacridaceae)”. New Phytologist 127.3 (1994), pp. 557-566. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1994.tb03974.x.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.