Brachyloma ericoides

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Brachyloma ericoides (Schltdl.) Sond.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Lobopogon ericoides Schltdl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Stenanthera ericoides (Schltdl.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Styphelia lobopogona F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Draper_2023 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGK_2014 (1), Roderick_1999 (3), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 49 records in 11 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 12 mm (4-18 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.32 mm (0.7-1.6 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; SAH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.09 cm (0.07-0.11 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 270 g/m2 (270-270 g/m2) [sources: Roderick_1999]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); obovate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; SAH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convex (1); flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 6.3 mg/g (6.3-6.3 mg/g) [sources: Roderick_1999]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 27.21 mg (27.21-27.21 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.57 m (0.2-0.9 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; SAH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
SAH_2023	11	15	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Roderick_1999	3	3	M. L. Roderick, S. L. Berry, and I. R. Noble. “The relationship between leaf composition and morphology at elevated CO2 concentrations”. New Phytologist 143.1 (1999), pp. 63-72. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00438.x.
SAH_2022	3	3	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.