Trochocarpa cunninghamii

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Trochocarpa cunninghamii (DC.) W.M.Curtis

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Decaspora cunninghami DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Decaspora cunninghamii DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
Trochocarpa disticha var. cunninghami F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Trochocarpa disticha var. cunninghamii (DC.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Jordan_2001 (7), Jordan_2007 (8), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 53 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 (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kirkpatrick_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 31.47 mm2 (29-34 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Mokany_2015; Tng_2013]
leaf_length (numerical): 9.25 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 148.43 g/m2 (142.86-154 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Tng_2013]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Kooyman_2011]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -33.03 {delta}[ppth] (-33.03--33.03 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (1-7.5 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.88 mm (1-6.75 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.66-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.67 m (1-3 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Jordan_2007	8	8	G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
Jordan_2001	7	7	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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.
Tng_2013	5	5	D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
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.
Kirkpatrick_2020	2	2	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.