Gaultheria depressa
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Gaultheria depressa Hook.f.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Gaultheria antipoda var. depressa (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Gaultheria antipoda G.Forst. (misapplied)
- Gaultheria antipoda G.Forst. (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (5), Kew_2019_1 (5), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (7), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 35 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); schizocarp (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 62.83 mm2 (62.83-62.83 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
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]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.05 mg (0.02-0.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.05 m (0.05-0.05 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| McGlone_2015 | 7 | 7 | 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. |
| Jordan_2001 | 5 | 5 | 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 5 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |
| Wright_2000 | 2 | 2 | I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |