Wittsteinia vacciniacea

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Family Alseuosmiaceae

Taxonomy: Wittsteinia vacciniacea F.Muell.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20), eFLOWER_2021 (43), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (49). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 74 traits from 169 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 (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): green (1); white (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 36.67 mm (4-52 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 20.58 mm (2.5-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); sprawling (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.08 mg (1.08-1.08 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.43 m (0.4-0.5 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	25	49	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
eFLOWER_2021	20	43	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2023	14	19	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Cheal_2017	6	6	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
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.
RBGV_2022	5	5	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.