Ozothamnus purpurascens
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Family Asteraceae
Taxonomy: Ozothamnus purpurascens DC.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Helichrysum ledifolium subsp. purpurascens (DC.) N.T.Burb. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Helichrysum purpurascens (DC.) W.M.Curtis (nomenclatural synonym)
- Ozothamnus rosmarinifolius var. purpurascens H.F.Comber (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 23 records in 7 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 (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_length (numerical): 18 mm (18-18 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
- 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]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
- dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.18-0.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 0.94 mm (0.94-0.94 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.31 mm (0.31-0.31 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: McGlone_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |