Trochocarpa disticha
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Family Ericaceae
Taxonomy: Trochocarpa disticha (Labill.) Spreng.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cyathodes disticha Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Decaspora disticha (Labill.) R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Trochocarpa disticha (Labill.) Spreng. var. disticha (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Tas
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), Kirkpatrick_2020 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 40 records in 8 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) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
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): 92 mm2 (92-92 mm2) [sources: Tng_2013]
- leaf_length (numerical): 18.75 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 104.56 g/m2 (104.56-104.56 g/m2) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_delta13C (numerical): -35.04 {delta}[ppth] (-35.04--35.04 {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): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.67-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_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_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. |
| Kirkpatrick_2020 | 2 | 2 | J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020. |
| 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. |