Olearia frostii

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Olearia frostii (F.Muell.) J.H.Willis

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aster frostii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Olearia stellulata var. frostii (F.Muell.) Ewart (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (4), Lim_2017 (64), Lunt_2012 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Vesk_2007 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 132 records in 14 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 103.35 mm2 (65.98-206.22 mm2) [sources: Lim_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 24.5 mm (8-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 11 mm (5-13 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 19.01 mg (11.5-35.67 mg) [sources: Lim_2017]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 149.94 g/m2 (96.15-540.54 g/m2) [sources: Lim_2017; Vesk_2007]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Lim_2017; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.86 mg (0.86-0.86 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lunt_2012]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.52 mg/mm3 (0.43-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Lim_2017]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 6.51 um (6.51-6.51 um) [sources: Lim_2017]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.04 mm2/mm2 (0.04-0.04 mm2/mm2) [sources: Lim_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Lim_2017	9	64	F. K. Lim, L. J. Pollock, and P. A. Vesk. “The role of plant functional traits in shrub distribution around alpine frost hollows”. Journal of Vegetation Science 28.3 (2017), pp. 585-594. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12517.
White_2020	18	18	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	10	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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.
Vesk_2007	2	6	P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
Kew_2019_6	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lunt_2012	1	1	I. Lunt and J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from various Morgan and Lunt projects 1990-2012, Charles Sturt & La Trobe University”. 2012.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.