Leptomeria drupacea

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Family Santalaceae

Taxonomy: Leptomeria drupacea (Labill.) Druce

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leptomeria billardierei R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptomeria billardierei var. humilis Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptomeria billardieri R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptomeria billardieri var. humilis Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptomeria billardierii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Thesium drupaceum Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (9), Chen_2017 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (8), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Staples_2019 (5), TMAG_2009 (12), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (2), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 108 records in 21 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 0.79 mm2 (0.79-0.79 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 1.02 mm (0.7-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.3-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
leaf_type (categorical): scale (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1); subulate (2); triangular (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; TMAG_2009]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): cladode (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnnnyy (1); yynnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; TMAG_2009; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.47 mg (4.47-4.47 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.6 mm (3.6-3.6 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 2.4 mm (2.4-2.4 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.63 mg/mm3 (0.57-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019; Westoby_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.42 m (0.7-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; TMAG_2009]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
TMAG_2009	10	12	Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
ABRS_2023	8	9	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/.
RBGV_2023	7	8	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Staples_2019	1	5	T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Westoby_2014	1	2	S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.