Cyathodes glauca

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Cyathodes glauca Labill.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cyathodes glauca Labill. var. glauca (nomenclatural synonym)
Styphelia billardierei F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Styphelia billardieri F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Styphelia billardierii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Trochocarpa glauca (Labill.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Smith_1996 (65), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 119 records in 12 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

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 200.87 mm2 (10.4-486.95 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
leaf_length (numerical): 23.1 mm (11.5-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.48 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 4.13 mg (4.13-4.13 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 167.57 g/m2 (160.84-174.31 g/m2) [sources: Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.57 g/g (0.57-0.57 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.74 g/g (0.74-0.74 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 24.5 deg (5-45 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.58 mg/g (12.58-12.58 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.66 mg/g (0.66-0.66 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.91 {delta}[ppth] (-31.91--31.91 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 93.96 mg (81.7-106.21 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015; RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4.5-4.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.77 mg/mm3 (0.77-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 4 m (3-5 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Smith_1996	17	65	B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	22	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
Tng_2013	5	5	D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
Mokany_2015	3	3	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
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.