Styphelia nitens

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Styphelia nitens Sleumer

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leucopogon nutans E.Pritz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Leucopogon oxycedrus Sond. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (6), Burrows_2020 (6), Collette_2021 (2), Goble_1981 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Standish_2019 (9), WAH_1998 (2), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 67 records in 12 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 (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 15.72 mm2 (15.72-15.72 mm2) [sources: Goble_1981]
leaf_length (numerical): 11.48 mm (5-14 mm) [sources: Goble_1981; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.72 mm (2.5-2.94 mm) [sources: Goble_1981; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 138 g/m2 (138-138 g/m2) [sources: Goble_1981]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_rhomboidal (1); ovate (1) [sources: Goble_1981; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (10) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): ericoid_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1); nnyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (2) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (4) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.4 mg/g (9.4-9.4 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.4 mg/g (0.4-0.4 mg/g) [sources: Standish_2019]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 103.65 mg (103.65-103.65 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.78 m (0.1-1.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_2019	9	9	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Burrows_2008_2	3	6	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	3	6	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Goble_1981	6	6	E. Goble-Garratt, D. Bell, and W. Loneragan. “Floristic and leaf structure patterns along a shallow elevational gradient”. Australian Journal of Botany 29 (1981), pp. 329-347. doi: 10.1071/bt9810329.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	2	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	2	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.