Hibbertia hirticalyx

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Family Dilleniaceae

Taxonomy: Hibbertia hirticalyx Toelken

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hibbertia billardierei F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia billardierei F.Muell. var. billardierei (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia billardierei var. monadelpha F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia billardierei var. obovata R.Br. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia billardieri var. monadelpha Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia billardieri var. obovata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia billardierii F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia ovata var. monadelpha (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia ovata var. obovata (R.Br. ex Benth.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Pleurandra obovata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Pleurandra ovata var. scabra (R.Br. ex DC.) Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hibbertia aspera DC. (misapplied)
Hibbertia aspera DC. (pro parte misapplied)
Pleurandra astrotricha Sieber ex Spreng. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (5), McGlone_2015 (7), Mokany_2015 (2), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 68 records in 11 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; 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): 659.73 mm2 (659.73-659.73 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 13.83 mm (5-25 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.17 mm (2-12 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.09 cm (0.04-0.14 cm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_woody (1); shrub (4) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Jordan_2001; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); sprawling (1); spreading (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.85 m (0.7-1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
TMAG_2009	10	12	Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
RBGV_2023	7	10	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Mokany_2015	2	2	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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.