Hibbertia commutata

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Family Dilleniaceae

Taxonomy: Hibbertia commutata Steud.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hibbertia confertifolia Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia discolor Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia glomerata var. canescens Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia montana var. confertifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hibbertia montana Steud. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Harvey_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Pekin_2011 (5), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 77 records in 19 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): resprouts (7) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Harvey_2017; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 32 mo (32-32 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 25.25 mm (6-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.25 mm (2-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); sprawling (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (3) [sources: Pekin_2011; Schmidt_1993; Standish_2019]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Harvey_2017; Standish_2019]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.6 mg/g (10.6-10.6 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.4 mg/g (0.4-0.4 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.58 mg (2.84-4.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.53 m (0.1-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	11	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_2019	8	8	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Harvey_2017	6	6	J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011.
Pekin_2011	5	5	B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_1993	2	2	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.