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Agonis flexuosa

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Agonis flexuosa (Willd.) Sweet

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Billiotia flexuosa Otto & A.Dietr. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billottia flexuosa (Willd.) G.Don (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billottia flexuosa (Willd.) R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Link (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptospermum glomeratum H.L.Wendl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leptospermum resiniferum Bertol. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Metrosideros flexuosa Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (native and naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (6), Barrett_2009 (18), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Cheal_2017 (1), Choat_2012 (1), Collette_2021 (1), RBGK_2014 (2), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (18), Schmidt_1993 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Wright_2000 (2), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 58 traits from 109 records in 21 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 3.25 mm (2.5-4 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 73.25 mm (18-135 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7.75 mm (3.5-12 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (7) [sources: Barrett_2009; RBGV_2022; Schmidt_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4) [sources: Barrett_2009]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (4); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 30.92 mg (0.4-119.07 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; RBGK_2014]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.58 mm (1.58-1.58 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
  • seed_shape (categorical): fusiform (1); ovoid (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10 m (10-10 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222021L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Barrett_2009518S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
RBGV_20231418VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wheeler_2002810J. 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.
ANBG_201966Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Burrows_2008_244N. 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_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
RBGK_201412Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Schmidt_199322S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_200022I. 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.
Cheal_201711D. 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.
Choat_201211B. Choat, S. Jansen, T. J. Brodribb, H. Cochard, S. Delzon, R. Bhaskar, S. J. Bucci, T. S. Feild, S. M. Gleason, U. G. Hacke, A. L. Jacobsen, F. Lens, H. Maherali, J. Martinez-Vilalta, S. Mayr, M. Mencuccini, P. J. Mitchell, A. Nardini, J. Pittermann, R. B. Pratt, J. S. Sperry, M. Westoby, I. J. Wright, and A. E. Zanne. “Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought”. Nature 491.7426 (2012), pp. 752-755. doi: 10.1038/nature11688.
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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.