Pimelea sericea

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Family Thymelaeaceae

Taxonomy: Pimelea sericea R.Br.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Banksia sericea (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Pimelea lanata Hensl. (taxonomic synonym)
Pimelea villosa Wikstr. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (11), Chen_2017 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 56 records in 13 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 (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 172.37 mm2 (30.91-299.86 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Westoby_2004]
leaf_length (numerical): 9 mm (3-12 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 131.55 g/m2 (126.74-137.36 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2004]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; Westoby_2004]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.41 mg/mm3 (0.38-0.44 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2004]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.63 m (0.2-0.8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2004	4	13	M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
ABRS_2023	8	11	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. 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/.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Mokany_2015	2	2	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.
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.
Kirkpatrick_2020	1	1	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.