Leptecophylla divaricata
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Leptecophylla divaricata (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cyathodes divaricata (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lissanthe divaricata Hook.f. (basionym)
- Styphelia remota Sleumer (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (5), SmithMartin_2020 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 36 records in 8 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 (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 14.61 mm2 (7.85-21.36 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 10 mm (10-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; SmithMartin_2020; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 23.93 mg (23.93-23.93 mg) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (5.25-5.25 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.9 m (0.9-0.9 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SmithMartin_2020 | 6 | 13 | C. M. Smith-Martin, R. P. Skelton, K. M. Johnson, C. Lucani, and T. J. Brodribb. “Lack of vulnerability segmentation among woody species in a diverse dry sclerophyll woodland community”. Functional Ecology 34 (2020), pp. 777-787. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13519. |
| 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. |
| McGlone_2015 | 6 | 6 | M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007. |
| Mokany_2015 | 3 | 5 | K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1. |
| 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. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 1 | 1 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |