Leiocarpa brevicompta

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Leiocarpa brevicompta (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ixiolaena brevicompta F.Muell. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (5), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (4), Leishman_1992 (7), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (8), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 92 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 (2) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 73 mm2 (73-73 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1992]
leaf_length (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); oblanceolate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); biennial (1); perennial (2) [sources: Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): bushy (2); erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; SAH_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.35 mg (0.32-0.4 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1992]
seed_length (numerical): 1.92 mm (1.92-1.92 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 0.48 mm (0.48-0.48 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	6	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/.
SAH_2023	6	8	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Leishman_1992	7	7	M. R. Leishman and M. Westoby. “Classifying plants into groups on the basis of associations of individual traits-Evidence from Australian semi-arid woodlands”. Journal of Ecology 80 (1992), pp. 417-424. doi: 10.2307/2260687.
ANBG_2019	5	5	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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/.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.