Olearia hookeri
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Olearia hookeri (Sond.) Benth.
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Eurybia hookeri Sond. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Olearia hookeri (Sond.) Benth. var. hookeri (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Eurybia ericoides Steetz (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Blackman_2010 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 32 records in 10 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 3.93 mm2 (3.93-3.93 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
- leaf_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 227.88 g/m2 (227.88-227.88 g/m2) [sources: Blackman_2010]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.62 mg (0.49-1.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
- seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.83 mg/mm3 (0.83-0.83 mg/mm3) [sources: Blackman_2010]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan_2001 | 7 | 7 | G. 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_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. |
| Blackman_2010 | 4 | 4 | C. 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. |
| 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. |
| Mokany_2015 | 3 | 3 | K. 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 2 | 2 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |