Leucochrysum albicans subsp. tricolor

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Leucochrysum albicans subsp. tricolor (DC.) N.G.Walsh

Synonyms: 14 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aphelexis incana (Hook.) G.Don ex Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
Elichrysum incanum Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum bicolorum DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum incanum Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum albicans f. grampianum Paul G.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum albicans f. incanum (Hook.) Paul G.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum albicans f. purpureo-album (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum albicans var. incanum (Hook.) Paul G.Wilson (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum bicolorum DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum incanum DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum incanum var. purpureo-album F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Helipterum incanum var. tricolor DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Leucochrysum albicans var. tricolor (DC.) Paul G.Wilson (nomenclatural synonym)
Roccardia albicans f. bicolorum (DC.) Voss (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Cheal_2017 (8), Lunt_2012 (2), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (11), SPRAT_2025_2 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 42 traits from 82 records in 10 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); resprouts (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; SPRAT_2025_2; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 60 mm (20-100 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (1); linear (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (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 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
lifespan (numerical): 15 a (15-15 a) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody_base (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.64 mg (0.38-1.06 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Lunt_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.12 m (0.1-0.15 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
SPRAT_2025_2	8	12	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
RBGV_2023	9	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	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.
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.
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/.
Lunt_2012	1	2	I. Lunt and J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from various Morgan and Lunt projects 1990-2012, Charles Sturt & La Trobe University”. 2012.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.