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Olearia pinifolia

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Olearia pinifolia (Hook.f.) Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Aster pinifolius (Hook.f.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Eurybia pinifolia Hook.f. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Blackman_2010 (4), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), 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 31 records in 9 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
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): 141.37 mm2 (141.37-141.37 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 45 mm (45-45 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 380.85 g/m2 (380.85-380.85 g/m2) [sources: Blackman_2010]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg (0.45-0.46 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.64 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.64 mg/mm3) [sources: Blackman_2010]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Jordan_200177G. 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_201566M. 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_201044C. 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_200644A. 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_202033J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_201533K. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.