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Amyema fitzgeraldii

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Family Loranthaceae

Taxonomy: Amyema fitzgeraldii (Blakely) Danser

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Loranthus fitzgeraldii Blakely (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (4), Draper_2023 (3), Munroe_2019 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 56 records in 13 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 13 mm (6-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.4-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); stem_parasitic (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_20231013S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.