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Astartea fascicularis

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Astartea fascicularis (Labill.) DC.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Astartea fascicularis (Labill.) DC. var. fascicularis (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Astartia fascicularis DC. (orthographic variant)
  • Baeckea fascicularis (Labill.) Nied. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptospermum laricifolium Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca fascicularis Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, ACT (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (20), Barrett_2009 (3), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Rye_2015 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (6), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (29). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 57 traits from 103 records in 16 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): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2.2 mm (2-2.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Barrett_2009; Rye_2015; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Rye_2015; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Rye_2015]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3); none (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.87 mg (0.04-7.69 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.8-1.1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.38 mm (0.3-0.45 mm) [sources: Rye_2015]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.27 m (0.3-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20222329L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_20231320Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Rye_2015914B. L. Rye. “A revision of the south-western Australian genus Babingtonia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae).”. Nuytsia 25 (2015), pp. 219-250.
Standish_201966R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_200933S. 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.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.