AusTraits

Brachyloma preissii

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Brachyloma preissii Sond.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Brachyloma jillup (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyloma preissii Sond. var. preissii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Brachyloma preissii subsp. lanceolatum Cranfield (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyloma preissii subsp. obtusifolium Cranfield (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyloma preissii var. brevifolium Sond. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Brachyloma tamminense Cranfield (taxonomic synonym)
  • Styphelia brachyloma F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Collette_2021 (3), Hutton_1994 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 40 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 11 mm (7-15 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • root_structure (categorical): ericoid_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Hutton_1994]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (3) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.55 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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.
Burrows_2008_244N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Collette_202113J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Hutton_199411B. J. Hutton, K. W. Dixon, and K. Sivasithamparam. “Ericoid endophytes of Western Australian heaths (Epacridaceae)”. New Phytologist 127.3 (1994), pp. 557-566. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1994.tb03974.x.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.