Ozothamnus hookeri

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Ozothamnus hookeri Sond.

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Baccharis lepidophylla DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum baccaroides Anderb. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum baccharoides F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum baccharoides F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Helichrysum hookeri (Sond.) Druce (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum hookeri (Sond.) Druce var. hookeri (nomenclatural synonym)
Helichrysum lepidophyllum (DC.) Tovey & P.Morris (taxonomic synonym)
Ozothamnus lepidophyllus (DC.) Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (8), Collette_2021 (1), Jagdish_2020 (4), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Pickup_2021 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tolsma_2007 (6), Vesk_2007 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (38). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 111 records in 17 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 (3); partial_resprouting (2); resprouts (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Tolsma_2007; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); 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): 1.57 mm2 (1.57-1.57 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 2 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 0.88 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 335.77 g/m2 (303.03-370.37 g/m2) [sources: Vesk_2007]
leaf_type (categorical): scale (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [sources: McGlone_2015; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Tolsma_2007; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; Tolsma_2007; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (4) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (4) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnny (4) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: 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_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.17 mg (0.11-0.47 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jagdish_2020; Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 1.04 mm (0.78-1.3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.84 mm (0.59-1.1 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): cylindrical (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.67 m (1-2 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015; NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
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.
NHNSW_2014_2	9	11	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	6	8	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NSWFRD_2014	8	8	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.
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.
Tolsma_2007	5	6	A. D. Tolsma, S. M. Read, and K. G. Tolhurst. “Roots of Australian alpine plant species contain high levels of stored carbohydrates independent of post-fire regeneration strategy”. Australian Journal of Botany 55.8 (2007), pp. 771-779. doi: 10.1071/BT06216.
Vesk_2007	2	6	P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
Jagdish_2020	2	4	A. Jagdish. “Unpublished data: Germination photoperiod sensitivity of Australian Plants, University of New South Wales”. 2020.
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.
Pickup_2021	3	3	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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.