Conospermum caeruleum subsp. caeruleum

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Conospermum caeruleum R.Br. subsp. caeruleum

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Conospermum caeruleum R.Br. var. caeruleum (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 31 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (90-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 18 mm (18-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 6 cm (6-6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2 a (2-2 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.57 m (0.15-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	7	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	N. 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_2020	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
ABRS_1981	2	2	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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.