Pentachondra pumila

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Pentachondra pumila (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) R.Br.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Decaspora pumila (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) F.Muell. ex Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Decaspora pumila F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Epacris pumila J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (nomenclatural synonym)
Leucopogon vaccinioides Sond. (taxonomic synonym)
Pentachondra vaccinioides (Sond.) Sond. (taxonomic synonym)
Styphelia pumila (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
Trochocarpa pumila (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic, Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (11), Cheal_2017 (6), Jordan_2001 (7), Kew_2019_1 (5), McGlone_2015 (7), Mokany_2015 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (4), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (18), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Vesk_2007 (7), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (26). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 77 traits from 155 records in 20 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 (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): gynomonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 6.75 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2); pyrene (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 9.66 mm2 (7.54-11.78 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Pickering_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 4.83 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.83 mm (0.5-2.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.05 cm (0.05-0.05 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 94.06 g/m2 (52.36-111.48 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014; Vesk_2007]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.65 g/g (0.65-0.65 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (2); convex (1); flat (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Cheal_2017; Jordan_2001; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); mat-forming (2); prostrate (4); sprawling (1) [sources: McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Vesk_2007; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nyynnnnnnnny (1); ynnnnnnnnnyy (1); yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1 mg (0.35-1.71 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; Mokany_2015]
seed_length (numerical): 2.66 mm (0.82-4.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 2.52 mm (0.55-4.5 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Jordan_2001]
seed_shape (categorical): sectoroid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	23	26	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	13	18	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2023	12	17	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/.
ANBG_2019	5	11	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
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	7	7	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.
Vesk_2007	3	7	P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Kew_2019_1	1	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	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/.
NSWFRD_2014	4	4	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.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.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.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.