Androstoma verticillata
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Androstoma verticillata (Hook.f.) Quinn
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Leucopogon milliganii (F.Muell.) Rodway (nomenclatural synonym)
- Pentachondra verticillata Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Styphelia milligani F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Styphelia milliganii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trochocarpa verticillata (Hook.f.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 16 records in 5 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: Kirkpatrick_2020]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| McGlone_2015 | 7 | 7 | 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. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 3 | 3 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 3 | 3 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| 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. |