Rhytidosporum diosmoides

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Rhytidosporum diosmoides (Putt.) L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Bursaria diosmoides Putt. (nomenclatural synonym)
Marianthus procumbens var. diosmoides (Putt.) Wawra (nomenclatural synonym)
Rhytidosporum sp. (Stanthorpe D.M.Gordon DMG595) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), ANBG_2019 (7), Clarke_2009 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (19), NSWFRD_2014 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 70 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 36 mo (36-36 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (4.5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4.5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (4.5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 14 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.5-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (1); shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Clarke_2009; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Clarke_2009]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (2); underground_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.4 mg (0.33-0.47 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_length (numerical): 1.51 mm (1.5-1.54 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.95-0.95 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (2); reniform (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; ANBG_2019; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	14	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	15	19	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	6	7	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
NSWFRD_2014	6	6	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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_2009	3	4	P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
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/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. 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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Sjostrom_2006	1	1	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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.