Hibbertia melhanioides
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Family Dilleniaceae
Taxonomy: Hibbertia melhanioides F.Muell.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hibbertia melhanoides F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Hibbertia velutina R.Br. ex Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (11), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 39 records in 7 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: Clarke_2015]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); follicle (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 399 mm2 (399-399 mm2) [sources: Tng_2013]
- leaf_length (numerical): 33.5 mm (12-55 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 164.54 g/m2 (164.54-164.54 g/m2) [sources: Tng_2013]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.27 {delta}[ppth] (-30.27--30.27 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.59 mg/mm3 (0.59-0.59 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 11 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Tng_2013 | 5 | 5 | D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378. |
| 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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |