Leptecophylla pendulosa
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Leptecophylla pendulosa (Jarman) C.M.Weiller
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cyathodes pendulosa Jarman (basionym)
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 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 19 records in 7 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): 1002.17 mm2 (1002.17-1002.17 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; 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_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (7.5-7.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 5.25 mm (5.25-5.25 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: McGlone_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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. |
| Mokany_2015 | 1 | 1 | 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |