Dracophyllum persistentifolium

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Dracophyllum persistentifolium S.Venter

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cystanthe scoparia (Hook.f.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Richea angustifolia B.L.Burtt (taxonomic synonym)
Richea scoparia Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Blackman_2010 (4), Brodribb_2000 (4), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Pickup_2021 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 52 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 424.56 mm2 (131.89-706.86 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Westoby_2004]
leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (60-60 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 205.13 g/m2 (193.42-233.64 g/m2) [sources: Blackman_2010; Westoby_2004]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Westoby_2004]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.12 mg (0.07-0.26 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 0.78 mm (0.78-0.78 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.36 mm (0.36-0.36 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.51-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: Blackman_2010; Westoby_2004]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Brodribb_2000]

whole plant morphology

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

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2004	4	13	M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
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.
Blackman_2010	4	4	C. J. Blackman, T. J. Brodribb, and G. J. Jordan. “Leaf hydraulic vulnerability is related to conduit dimensions and drought resistance across a diverse range of woody angiosperms”. New Phytologist 188.4 (2010), pp. 1113-1123. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03439.x.
Brodribb_2000	4	4	T. J. Brodribb and T. S. Feild. “Stem hydraulic supply is linked to leaf photosynthetic capacity: evidence from New Caledonian and Tasmanian rainforests”. Plant, Cell and Environment 23.12 (2000), pp. 1381-1388. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2000.00647.x.
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.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
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.
Pickup_2021	3	3	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.