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Lomatia polymorpha

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Family Proteaceae

Taxonomy: Lomatia polymorpha R.Br.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lomatia polymorpha R.Br. var. polymorpha (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Lomatia polymorpha var. cinerea R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Lomatia polymorpha var. rufa R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tricondylus polymorphus (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Blackman_2010 (4), Chen_2017 (5), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2015 (4), Jordan_2020 (13), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 90 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): follicle (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); grey (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 396.41 mm2 (353-439.82 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020; Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.62 mm (2.5-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 292.78 g/m2 (292.76-292.8 g/m2) [sources: Blackman_2010; Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); narrowly_ovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_stomatal_density_abaxial (numerical): 152.32 {count}/mm2 (152.32-152.32 {count}/mm2) [sources: Jordan_2020]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Jordan_2001; Jordan_2015; Jordan_2020; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.75 mm (3-12 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.7 mg/mm3 (0.7-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Blackman_2010]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.25 m (2.5-4 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231620Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221617L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jordan_20201313G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, B. R. Holland, N. J. Beeton, M. D. Woodhams, and T. J. Brodribb. “Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287.1919 (2020), p. 20192876. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2876.
Jordan_200177G. 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_201566M. 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.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
Blackman_201044C. J. Blackman, T. J. Brodribb, and G. J. Jordan. “Leaf hydraulic vulnerability is related to conduit dimensions and drought resistance across a diverse range of woody angiosperms”. New Phytologist 188.4 (2010), pp. 1113-1123. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03439.x.
Jordan_201544G. J. Jordan, R. J. Carpenter, A. Koutoulis, A. Price, and T. J. Brodribb. “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”. New Phytologist 205.2 (2015), pp. 608-617. doi: 10.1111/nph.13076.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kirkpatrick_202011J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201511K. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.