Ozothamnus diosmifolius

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Ozothamnus diosmifolius (Vent.) DC.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gnaphalium diosmaefolium Vent. (nomenclatural synonym)
Gnaphalium diosmifolium Vent. (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum diosmifolium (Vent.) Sweet (nomenclatural synonym)
Ozothamnus diosmaefolia DC. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Benwell_2024 (4), Bloomfield_2018 (248), Campbell_2006 (6), Clarke_2009 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Kubiak_2009 (8), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (5), McCarthy_2017 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (10), Pickup_2021 (30), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (5). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 84 traits from 428 records in 30 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 (4); partial_resprouting (7); resprouts (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (7); post_fire_recruitment_absent (3) [sources: Benwell_2024; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 12.64 mm2 (10.39-15 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995; McCarthy_2017]
leaf_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 80.84 g/m2 (48.26-185.28 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; McCarthy_2017]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.45 g/g (0.39-0.51 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (18); tree (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); open (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (3) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (6) [sources: Draper_2023; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): passive (1); wind (5) [sources: Campbell_2006; Draper_2023; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); nnnnnnnyyyyn (4) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (2); soil_seedbank (9) [sources: Benwell_2024; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (7); transient (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (4); underground_buds (1) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 22.93 mg/g (19.89-26.86 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.93 mg/g (0.81-1.11 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]

physiology

leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_area_maximum (numerical): 15.73 umol{CO2}/m2/s (6.28-36.08 umol{CO2}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_photosynthetic_rate_per_dry_mass_maximum (numerical): 0.16 umol{CO2}/g/s (0.06-0.43 umol{CO2}/g/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]
leaf_stomatal_conductance_per_area_at_Amax (numerical): 48.98 mmol{H2O}/m2/s (13.9-170.7 mmol{H2O}/m2/s) [sources: Bloomfield_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.09 mg (0.06-0.16 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.55-0.55 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.62 m (1.5-5 m) [sources: Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Bloomfield_2018	24	248	K. J. Bloomfield, L. A. Cernusak, D. Eamus, D. S. Ellsworth, I. C. Prentice, I. J. Wright, M. M. Boer, M. G. Bradford, P. Cale, J. Cleverly, J. J. G. Egerton, B. J. Evans, L. S. Hayes, M. F. Hutchinson, M. J. Liddell, C. Macfarlane, W. S. Meyer, S. M. Prober, H. F. Togashi, T. Wardlaw, L. Zhu, and O. K. Atkin. “A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons”. Functional Ecology 32.6 (2018), pp. 1492-1506. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13097.
White_2020	19	38	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Pickup_2021	5	30	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
NHNSW_2023	8	10	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	10	10	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Clarke_2009	4	8	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Kubiak_2009	6	8	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Campbell_2006	6	6	M. L. Campbell and P. J. Clarke. “Response of montane wet sclerophyll forest understorey species to fire- evidence from high and low intensity fires”. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 127 (2006), pp. 63-73. doi: unknown.
Leishman_1995	5	5	M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
McCarthy_2017	3	5	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	5	5	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Hughes_1992	4	4	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
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.
Cooper_2013	1	1	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Leishman_1993	1	1	M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.