Leucopogon pulchellus
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Leucopogon pulchellus Sond.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Leucopogon glabratus Gand. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Leucopogon morrisonii Gand. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
- Leucopogon triqueter Stschegl. (taxonomic synonym)
- Styphelia pulchella (Sond.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008 (8), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 50 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 (4); resprouts (1) [sources: Burrows_2008; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 43 mo (43-43 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
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]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): ericoid_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 3.22 a (2.5-3.58 a) [sources: Burrows_2008; Burrows_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (5) [sources: Burrows_2008; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 18.19 mg (18.19-18.19 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.79 m (0.15-1 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler_2002 | 8 | 10 | J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168. |
| Burrows_2008 | 4 | 8 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. |
| Standish_2019 | 7 | 7 | R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 5 | 5 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Burrows_2020 | 5 | 5 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| 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_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | 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. |
| 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. |