Leucopogon obtusatus
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Leucopogon obtusatus Sond.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Leucopogon brevifolius Stschegl. (taxonomic synonym)
- Leucopogon minutifolius W.Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)
- Leucopogon obtusatus Sond. var. obtusatus (nomenclatural synonym)
- Styphelia obtusata (Sond.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Styphelia brachycephala (DC.) F.Muell. (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (1), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 22 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.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (2); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.51 m (0.1-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 8 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Barrett_2009 | 1 | 1 | S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009. |
| 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. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |