Styphelia epacridis

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Styphelia epacridis (DC.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Astroloma divaricatum Sond. (taxonomic synonym)
Astroloma epacridis (DC.) Druce (nomenclatural synonym)
Astroloma pungens Stschegl. (taxonomic synonym)
Astroloma splendens Planch. (taxonomic synonym)
Cyathodes baxteri A.Cunn. ex DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Leucopogon epacridis DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Styphelia splendens Planch. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Gosper_2012 (6), Harvey_2017 (6), Read_2005 (36), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 73 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): resprouts (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 12 mo (12-12 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 17.94 mm2 (13.6-24.4 mm2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 210.98 g/m2 (204.5-215.98 g/m2) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Read_2005]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Gosper_2012; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): ephemeral (1); perennial (2); short_lived_perennial (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); sprawling (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (2); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (2) [sources: Gosper_2012; Harvey_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11 mg/g (9.69-13 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.45 mg/g (0.36-0.54 mg/g) [sources: Read_2005]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.1-1.2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Read_2005	8	36	J. Read, G. D. Sanson, and B. B. Lamont. “Leaf mechanical properties in sclerophyll woodland and shrubland on contrasting soils”. Plant and Soil 276 (2005), pp. 95-113. doi: 10.1007/s11104-005-3343-8.
Gosper_2012	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
Harvey_2017	6	6	J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sweedman_2006	2	2	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.