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Zieria smithii

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Zieria smithii Andrews

Synonyms: 18 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Boronia arborescens (Sims) F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Boronia arborescens F.Muell. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Boronia arborescens F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria lanceolata R.Br. ex Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria multiflora Sm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii Andrews subsp. smithii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zieria smithii Andrews var. smithii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zieria smithii subsp. A (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii subsp. B (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii subsp. a (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii subsp. b (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii subsp. tomentosa J.A.Armstr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii var. parvifolia Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii var. tomentosa Maiden & Betche (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria smithii var. typica Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zieria smithii var. typica Hochr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Zieria sp. (Mt Ballow G.Leiper AQ473220) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Zieria trifoliata Loisel. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), ANBG_2019 (2), Benwell_2024 (4), Campbell_2006 (6), Clarke_2009 (5), Clarke_2015 (6), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Fonseca_2000 (13), Hughes_1992 (5), Kew_2019_1 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Kubiak_2009 (10), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (5), McCarthy_2017 (5), McGlone_2015 (6), Mesaglio_2022 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (14), NSWFRD_2014 (12), Pickup_2021 (10), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (16), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (76), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 63 traits from 267 records in 32 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 (10); partial_resprouting (3); resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (6) [sources: Benwell_2024; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); follicle (3); mericarp (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 220.08 mm2 (48-438.1 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 39.2 mm (10-70 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7.76 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 17.67 mg (11-27 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.5 cm (0.8-2.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 130.18 g/m2 (51.02-322.58 g/m2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Leishman_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (3); narrowly_elliptical (2); oblong (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); revolute (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (20) [sources: ABRS_2022; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1995; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2); spindly (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): ballistic (3); myrmecochory (2); zoochory (4) [sources: Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (4) [sources: Campbell_2006; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnynnn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1); nnnnnnnyynnn (1); nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnnnnyyyyy (4); nnnnnyyyyyyn (1); nnyyynnnyyyn (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (7) [sources: Benwell_2024; Campbell_2006; Clarke_2009; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (7) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; White_2020]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (4) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1); none (2) [sources: Campbell_2006; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.44 mg (1.28-1.91 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993; Leishman_1995]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.66 mm (2.12-3 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.7 mm (1.4-2 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.57-0.63 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20201976M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_20231316VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231114N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Fonseca_2000513C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
NSWFRD_2014812B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kubiak_2009610P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Pickup_2021510M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
Campbell_200666M. L. Campbell and P. J. Clarke. “Response of montane wet sclerophyll forest understorey species to fire- evidence from high and low intensity fires”. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 127 (2006), pp. 63-73. doi: unknown.
Clarke_201536P. 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.
McGlone_201566M. 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.
Clarke_200955P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Hughes_199255L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Leishman_199555M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604.
McCarthy_201715J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Wright_200044I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ANBG_201922Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Mesaglio_202212T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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.
Leishman_199311M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990.
Schmidt_199311S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.