Olearia persoonioides

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Olearia persoonioides (DC.) Benth.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aster persoonioides (DC.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Aster persoonoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Eurybia persoonioides DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Eurybia persoonioides DC. var. persoonioides (nomenclatural synonym)
Eurybia persoonioides var. lanceolata Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
Olearia lanceolata (Benth.) D.I.Morris (taxonomic synonym)
Olearia persoonioides (DC.) Benth. var. persoonioides (nomenclatural synonym)
Olearia persoonioides var. lanceolata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Shawia persoonioides (DC.) Sch.Bip. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2007 (8), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 39 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]

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): 178.55 mm2 (8.64-353 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Mokany_2015; Tng_2013]
leaf_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.2 mm (2.2-2.2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 167.38 g/m2 (153.75-181 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Tng_2013]
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]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Jordan_2007]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -32.03 {delta}[ppth] (-32.03--32.03 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.85 mg (0.85-0.85 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.73-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Jordan_2007	8	8	G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
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.
Tng_2013	5	5	D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_2015	2	2	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.