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Pimelea latifolia

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Family Thymelaeaceae

Taxonomy: Pimelea latifolia R.Br.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Banksia latifolia (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Calyptrostegia latifolia (R.Br.) Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pimelea latifolia R.Br. subsp. latifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pimelea latifolia R.Br. var. latifolia (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (16), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (6), McCarthy_2017 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (7), NHNSW_2023 (21), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 112 records in 18 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 116.83 mm2 (51-219.34 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995; McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 45.4 mm (5-92 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 14.31 mm (2-27 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 55.62 g/m2 (49.54-63.89 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_obovate (1); spathulate (2); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2); opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): myrmecochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (2); yyyyyynnnyyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4.56 mg (4.15-5.03 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.33 mg/mm3 (0.22-0.38 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.02 m (0.2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_2023821N. 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/.
ABRS_2023916Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
McCarthy_2017315J. 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.
Kooyman_2011812R. 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.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_202247N. 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/.
Leishman_199566M. 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.
Chen_201755Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_202224Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Clarke_201522P. 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.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.