Leiocarpa gatesii
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Leiocarpa gatesii (H.B.Will.) Paul G.Wilson
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Helichrysum gatesii H.B.Will. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Leptorhynchos gatesii (H.B.Will.) J.H.Willis (nomenclatural synonym)
- Leptorrhynchus gatesii J.H.Willis (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Vic
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Vic Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (5), Cheal_2017 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18), Yang_2023 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 51 records in 9 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: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Yang_2023]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (2-25 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (1-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_oblanceolate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): undulate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.16 mg (0.16-0.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 1.27 mm (1.27-1.27 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.24 mm (0.24-0.24 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.15 m (0.1-0.2 m) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 18 | 18 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| RBGV_2023 | 10 | 14 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| ANBG_2019 | 5 | 5 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| Cheal_2017 | 4 | 4 | D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010. |
| RBGV_2022 | 3 | 3 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Yang_2023 | 3 | 3 | S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |