Hibbertia sphenandra

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Family Dilleniaceae

Taxonomy: Hibbertia sphenandra (F.Muell. & Tate) J.W.Horn

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pachynema sphenandrum F.Muell. & Tate (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pachynema junceum Benth. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (1), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2014 (6), NTH_2022 (1), NTH_2023 (9), Nano_2011 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 37 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

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

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 16.5 mm (8-25 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); spathulate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (2); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): ants (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnny (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 14.7 mg (14.7-14.7 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.25 m (0.25-0.25 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	7	9	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
NTH_2014	5	6	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_2007	1	1	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
NTH_2022	1	1	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Nano_2011	1	1	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.