Kelleria dieffenbachii

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Family Thymelaeaceae

Taxonomy: Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Daphnobryon tasmanicum (Hook.f.) Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Daphnobryon tasmannicum Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)
Drapetes tasmanica Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Drapetes tasmanicus Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
Kelleria tasmanica (Hook.f.) Berggr. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (13), ANBG_2019 (7), Chen_2017 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (42), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 66 traits from 121 records in 14 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: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
flower_diameter (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.3-0.3 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): gynodioecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 2.62 mm (1.5-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.4-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): imbricate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): creeping (2); prostrate (2); tufted (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.58 mg (0.16-0.9 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.34 mm (0.3-2 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001; ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1.1 mm (0.7-1.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001; ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	21	42	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	21	22	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	11	13	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	7	8	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/.
ANBG_2019	5	7	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Kew_2019_1	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
Chen_2017	3	3	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.