Epacris serpyllifolia
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Epacris serpyllifolia R.Br.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Epacris serpillifolia F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
- Epacris serpyllifolia R.Br. var. serpyllifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 41 records in 10 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 (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
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): 14.15 mm2 (3.52-23.56 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Westoby_2004]
- leaf_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 166.3 g/m2 (157.48-181.16 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2004]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Westoby_2004]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; 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_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.04 mg (0.04-0.04 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
- seed_length (numerical): 0.63 mm (0.63-0.63 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.31 mm (0.31-0.31 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.62 mg/mm3 (0.57-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2004]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. 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. |