Olearia brachyphylla
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Olearia brachyphylla (F.Muell. ex Sond.) N.A.Wakef.
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Aster brachyphyllus (F.Muell. ex Sond.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Aster exilifolius F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eurybia brachyphylla F.Muell. ex Sond. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Olearia exilifolia (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Olearia exilifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Olearia ramulosa (Labill.) Benth. (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 54 records in 11 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 (1) [sources: White_2020]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 2 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); obovate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998; White_2020]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.05 m (0.3-1.5 m) [sources: SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| White_2020 | 19 | 19 | M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020. |
| SAH_2023 | 13 | 15 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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. |
| 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. |
| SAH_2022 | 3 | 3 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | 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. |