Lysinema ciliatum
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Lysinema ciliatum R.Br.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Epacris ciliata (R.Br.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lasynema ciliatum Poir. (orthographic variant)
- Lysinema ciliatum R.Br. var. ciliatum (nomenclatural synonym)
- Lysinema ciliatum f. Denmark (D.H.Perry s.n. 12/1961) (taxonomic synonym)
- Lysinema ciliatum f. Mt. Barren (E. & S.Pignatti 1409) (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (6), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Enright_2014 (33), Gosper_2012 (6), Harvey_2017 (6), Hutton_1994 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Pate_1990 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (7), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Wilson_2004 (3), vanderMoezel_1987 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 112 records in 22 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 (25) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017; Pate_1990; Wilson_2004; vanderMoezel_1987]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (20) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Pate_1990; vanderMoezel_1987]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 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 (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- root_structure (categorical): ericoid_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Hutton_1994]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); ynnnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998; vanderMoezel_1987]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (2); soil_seedbank (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017]
- serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (2) [sources: Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.18-0.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.92 m (0.1-1.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enright_2014 | 3 | 33 | N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 7 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Barrett_2009 | 6 | 6 | 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. |
| Gosper_2012 | 6 | 6 | C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x. |
| Harvey_2017 | 6 | 6 | J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011. |
| Pate_1990 | 5 | 5 | J. S. Pate, R. H. Froend, B. J. Bowen, A. Hansen, and J. Kuo. “Seedling growth and storage characteristics of seeder and resprouter species of Mediterranean-type ecosystems of SW Australia”. Annals of Botany 65.6 (1990), pp. 585-601. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087976. |
| vanderMoezel_1987 | 5 | 5 | P. G. van der Moezel, W. A. Loneragan, and D. T. Bell. “Northern Sandplain Kwongan - regeneration following fire, juvenile period and flowering phenology”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69.4 (1987), pp. 123-132. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 4 | 4 | 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 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 4 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| 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. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| Wilson_2004 | 2 | 3 | B. A. Wilson, J. Kuehs, L. E. Valentine, T. Sonneman, and K. M. Wolfe. “Guidelines for ecological burning regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems: a case study in Banksia woodlands in Western Australia”. Pacific Conservation Biology 20.1 (2014), p. 57. doi: 10.1071/pc140057. |
| 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. |
| Hutton_1994 | 1 | 1 | B. J. Hutton, K. W. Dixon, and K. Sivasithamparam. “Ericoid endophytes of Western Australian heaths (Epacridaceae)”. New Phytologist 127.3 (1994), pp. 557-566. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1994.tb03974.x. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |