Amyema sanguinea var. sanguinea

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Family Loranthaceae

Taxonomy: Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser var. sanguinea

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)

Amyema brevipes (Tiegh.) Danser (taxonomic synonym)
Amyema muelleri (Tiegh.) Danser (taxonomic synonym)
Amyema sanguineum Barlow var. sanguineum (orthographic variant)
Amyema spathulata (O.Schwarz) Danser (taxonomic synonym)
Amyema spathulatum Barlow (taxonomic synonym)
Loranthus brevipes (Tiegh.) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
Loranthus muelleri (Tiegh.) Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
Loranthus spathulatus O.Schwarz (taxonomic synonym)
Pilostigma brevipes Tiegh. (taxonomic synonym)
Pilostigma muelleri Tiegh. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 30 records in 9 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 (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 155 mm (60-250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); narrowly_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); stem_parasitic (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	6	8	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Nano_2011	3	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. 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.
ABRS_1981	2	2	B. 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/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.