AusTraits

Epacris purpurascens var. onosmiflora

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Epacris purpurascens var. onosmiflora (A.Cunn.) Maiden & Betche

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Epacris onosmaeflora A.Cunn. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Epacris onosmiflora A.Cunn. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Epacris purpurascens var. onosmaeflora Maiden & Betche (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 14 records in 5 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
life history

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_202366N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Clarke_201522P. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.