AusTraits

Astartea leptophylla

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Astartea leptophylla Schauer

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Astartea sp. rivers (K.R.Newbey 1740) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (20), Collette_2021 (1), Rye_2015 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 59 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.5-1.7 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
  • leaf_length (numerical): 12.17 mm (8-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.63 mm (0.5-0.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015; Wheeler_2002]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.12 cm (0.05-0.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2) [sources: Rye_2015; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1); decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.9 mm (0.7-1.1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.48 mm (0.35-0.6 mm) [sources: Rye_2015]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.25 m (1-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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_20151116B. L. Rye. “A revision of the south-western Australian genus Babingtonia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae).”. Nuytsia 25 (2015), pp. 219-250.
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.
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/.
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.
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.