Banksia leptophylla var. leptophylla
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Family Proteaceae
Taxonomy: Banksia leptophylla A.S.George var. leptophylla
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (4), He_2011 (3), Tsakalos_2020 (18), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 42 records in 10 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 (2); resprouts (1) [sources: He_2011; Tsakalos_2020; Yang_2023]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): follicle (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf morphology
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyynnnyyyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Tsakalos_2020]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
- serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: He_2011; Yang_2023]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: He_2011]
seed morphology
- seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tsakalos_2020 | 17 | 18 | J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787. |
| ABRS_2023 | 4 | 4 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Yang_2023 | 4 | 4 | S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023. |
| ABRS_1981 | 3 | 3 | B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/. |
| ABRS_2022 | 3 | 3 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| He_2011 | 3 | 3 | T. He, B. B. Lamont, and K. S. Downes. “Banksia born to burn”. New Phytologist 191.1 (2011), pp. 184-196. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03663.x. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |