Hibbertia huegelii

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Family Dilleniaceae

Taxonomy: Hibbertia huegelii (Endl.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Candollea cygnorum Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
Candollea huegelii Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Candollea pachyrrhiza (Steud.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia basitricha Steud. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia huegelii (Endl.) F.Muell. var. huegelii (nomenclatural synonym)
Hibbertia huegelii var. subglabra Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Hibbertia pachyrrhiza Steud. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (2), Enright_2014 (5), Laliberte_2012 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (18), Tsakalos_2022 (2), Veneklaas_2003 (20), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), vanderMoezel_1987 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 92 records in 17 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 (6) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 938.32 mm2 (938.32-938.32 mm2) [sources: Laliberte_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 216.47 g/m2 (182.82-250.13 g/m2) [sources: Laliberte_2012; Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.41 g/g (0.35-0.47 g/g) [sources: Laliberte_2012; Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.65 g/g (0.65-0.65 g/g) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): conduplicate (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020; Veneklaas_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Laliberte_2012; Standish_2019; Veneklaas_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (3); open (1); prostrate (2); spreading (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Standish_2019; Veneklaas_2003]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (3) [sources: Laliberte_2012; Standish_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); ynnnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; vanderMoezel_1987]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Enright_2014; Standish_2019]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (2) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11 mg/g (11-11 mg/g) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.4 mg (6.62-10.18 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014; Standish_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.32 m (0.1-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Veneklaas_2003	18	20	E. J. Veneklaas and P. Poot. “Seasonal patterns in water use and leaf turnover of different plant functional types in a species-rich woodland, south-western Australia”. Plant and Soil 257.2 (2003), pp. 295-304. doi: 10.1023/a:1027383920150.
Tsakalos_2020	17	18	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Enright_2014	3	5	N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306.
Laliberte_2012	5	5	E. Laliberte, B. L. Turner, T. Costes, S. J. Pearse, K. Wyrwoll, G. Zemunik, and H. Lambers. “Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot”. Journal of Ecology 100 (2012), pp. 631-642. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01962.x.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_2	1	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
vanderMoezel_1987	3	3	P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132.
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.
Collette_2021	1	2	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.
Tsakalos_2022	2	2	J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. 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.