Hibbertia ovata

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Family Dilleniaceae

Taxonomy: Hibbertia ovata Steud.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Hibbertia montana var. major Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Hibbertia ovata Steud. var. ovata (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Collette_2021 (1), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (9), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Yang_2023 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 49 records in 13 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); resprouts (1) [sources: Standish_2019; Yang_2023]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]

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 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2); spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.7 mg/g (10.7-10.7 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): 2.55 mg (2.26-2.84 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014; Standish_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.1-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

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.
Standish_2019	9	9	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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.
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.
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_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/.
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.
Yang_2023	2	2	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.
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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.