Tremandra diffusa
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Family Elaeocarpaceae
Taxonomy: Tremandra diffusa R.Br. ex DC.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Clarke_2015 (2), Pekin_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 38 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): fire_killed (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Pekin_2011]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
- 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): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 12 mm (6-18 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (4-15 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: 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 (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Pekin_2011]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Pekin_2011]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): bud-bearing_root (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.24 m (0.05-0.3 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. |
| 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. |
| Pekin_2011 | 4 | 4 | B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x. |
| 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/. |
| Clarke_2015 | 2 | 2 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |