Hibbertia salicifolia

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Family Dilleniaceae

Taxonomy: Hibbertia salicifolia (DC.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Adrastaea salicifolia DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Adrastea salicifolia Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Schmidt_1997 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 55 records in 10 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 (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Schmidt_1997]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): follicle (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 94.52 mm2 (54.29-158.71 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.15 cm (0.1-0.2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 122.4 g/m2 (104.39-143.76 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); oblong (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Schmidt_1997; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
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: Schmidt_1997]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.9 {delta}[ppth] (-29.26--28.53 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_1997]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	10	13	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Schmidt_1997	10	12	S. Schmidt and G. Stewart. “Waterlogging and fire impacts on nitrogen availability and utilization in a subtropical wet heathland (wallum)”. Plant, Cell and Environment 20.10 (1997), pp. 1231-1241. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1997.d01-20.x.
McCarthy_2017	2	10	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NSWFRD_2014	5	5	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.