Baeckea leptocaulis

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Baeckea leptocaulis Hook.f.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Bean_1997 (11), French_2017 (3), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 37 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): resprouts (1) [sources: French_2017]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 3.14 mm2 (3.14-3.14 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 9.62 mm (4.5-12 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Bean_1997]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.8-1.2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Bean_1997]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Bean_1997]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Bean_1997; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Bean_1997; Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Bean_1997]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: French_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.11 mg (0.11-0.12 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 0.96 mm (0.81-1.1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Bean_1997]
seed_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.4-0.4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.67 m (1-2 m) [sources: Bean_1997; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Bean_1997	8	11	A. Bean. “A revision of Baeckea (Myrtaceae) in eastern Australia, Malesia and south-east Asia”. Telopea 7 (1997), pp. 245-268. doi: 10.1.1.520.6315.
Jordan_2001	6	6	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.
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.
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.
French_2017	3	3	B. J. French, L. D. Prior, G. J. Williamson, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Cause and effects of a megafire in sedge-heathland in the Tasmanian temperate wilderness”. Australian Journal of Botany 64.6 (2016), pp. 513-525. doi: 10.1071/bt16087.
Mokany_2015	3	3	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.