Leptospermum glaucescens

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Leptospermum glaucescens S.Schauer

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eriostemon trinerve Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Eriostemon trinervis Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Leptospermum erythrocarpum Summerh. & H.F.Comber (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leptospermum flavescens Sm. (misapplied)
Leptospermum flavescens var. commune Benth. (misapplied)
Leptospermum myrtifolium Sieber ex DC. (misapplied)
Leptospermum sericeum Labill. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (6), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (42). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 55 traits from 75 records in 12 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: Clarke_2015; Kirkpatrick_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 46.17 mm2 (29.5-62.83 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Westoby_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 102.4 g/m2 (102.4-102.4 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.21 mg/g (9.21-9.21 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.5 mg/g (0.5-0.5 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.52 {delta}[ppth] (-27.52--27.52 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.23 mg (0.07-0.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 1.25 mm (1.25-1.25 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.3 mm (0.3-0.3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2014]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 18 m (18-18 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2014	34	42	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.
Jordan_2001	6	6	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.
Kew_2019_1	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_2015	3	3	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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
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_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the 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.