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Amyema mackayensis

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Family Loranthaceae

Taxonomy: Amyema mackayensis (Blakely) Danser

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Amyema cycnei-sinus (Blakely) Danser (taxonomic synonym)
  • Amyema mackayense Barlow (orthographic variant)
  • Amyema mackayense Barlow subsp. mackayense (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Amyema mackayense subsp. cycnei-sinus Barlow (taxonomic synonym)
  • Amyema mackayensis (Blakely) Danser subsp. mackayensis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Amyema mackayensis subsp. cycnei-sinus (Blakely) Barlow (taxonomic synonym)
  • Loranthus cycnei-sinus Blakely (taxonomic synonym)
  • Loranthus mackayensis Blakely (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (13), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (9), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2023 (14), 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 22 traits from 72 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 42.17 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 29.17 mm (10-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.2-0.7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (3) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NTH_2014]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
  • parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); parasitic (1); stem_parasitic (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2014; WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1); yyynnnnyyyyy (1); yyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023714Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023614D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022513Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_201389W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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/.
ABRS_198122B. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.