Ozothamnus ledifolius
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Ozothamnus ledifolius (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Hook.f.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cassinia ledifolia A.Cunn. ex DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Helichrysum ledifolium (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Helichrysum ledifolium (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Benth. subsp. ledifolium (nomenclatural synonym)
- Helichrysum rosmarinifolium var. ledifolium (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Tovey & P.Morris (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (11), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 42 records in 11 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): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 18.57 mm2 (17.67-20.57 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Westoby_2004]
- leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 264.04 g/m2 (248.76-279.33 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2004]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Westoby_2004]
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): 0.32 mg (0.29-0.36 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
- seed_length (numerical): 1.1 mm (1.1-1.1 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.39 mm (0.39-0.39 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.75 mg/mm3 (0.66-0.83 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2004]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westoby_2004 | 4 | 11 | M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Wright_2000 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |