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Stenanthera conostephioides

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Stenanthera conostephioides Sond.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Astroloma conostephioides (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pentataphrus behrii Schltdl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenanthera conostephioides Sond. var. conostephioides (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Stenanthera conostephioides var. glabrata Sond. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Stenanthera conostephoides F.Muell. (orthographic variant)
  • Styphelia behrii (Schltdl.) Sleumer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Styphelia sonderi F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): SA, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Angevin_2011 (7), Cheal_2017 (8), Clarke_2015 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Dong_2017 (15), Draper_2023 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Morgan_2011_1 (5), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGK_2014 (1), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (16), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (18). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 110 records in 17 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (9-11 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); red (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 44.33 mm2 (44.33-44.33 mm2) [sources: Angevin_2011]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 18.33 mm (7-25 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (0.8-2 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.08 cm (0.05-0.12 cm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 382.57 g/m2 (193.98-722.02 g/m2) [sources: Angevin_2011; Dong_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.62 g/g (0.62-0.62 g/g) [sources: Angevin_2011]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (2); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): convex (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); subshrub (1) [sources: Angevin_2011; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Cheal_2017; Morgan_2011_1; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spreading (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Dong_2017; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (4) [sources: Angevin_2011; Draper_2023; Morgan_2011_1; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: Morgan_2011_1; White_2020]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.95 mg/g (10.61-13.29 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.49 {delta}[ppth] (-28.9--28.08 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 60.38 mg (42.44-78.31 mg) [sources: Angevin_2011; RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201818M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231216VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Dong_2017815N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
SAH_20231014S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Cheal_201788D. 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.
Angevin_201177T. Angevin. “Species richness and functional trait diversity response to land use in a temperate eucalypt woodland community”. Honours. La Trobe University, 2011.
McGlone_201566M. 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.
Morgan_2011_155J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Grassy woodland traits, La Trobe University”. 2011.
Clarke_201524P. 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.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
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.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.