Billardiera ovalis
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Family Pittosporaceae
Taxonomy: Billardiera ovalis Lindl.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Billardiera longiflora var. ovalis (Lindl.) E.M.Benn. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (19), Kirkpatrick_2020 (4), McGlone_2015 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 42 records in 7 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 22.62 mm (16.5-25 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (1); sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); polyhedral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 18 | 19 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| ABRS_2022 | 5 | 5 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 4 | 4 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| 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. |
| 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. |