Astartea montana
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Astartea montana Rye
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Astartea sp. staminodes (A.Strid 21584) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (20), Barrett_2009 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Pickup_2021 (5), Rye_2015 (16), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 53 records in 8 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 (1); partial_resprouting (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 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): 5.75 mm (4-7.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.4-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0.07-0.12 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1) [sources: Rye_2015]
- 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
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021; Rye_2015; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Rye_2015; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Rye_2015]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Rye_2015]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 0.92 mm (0.75-1.1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.4-0.6 mm) [sources: Rye_2015]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.72 m (0.4-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Rye_2015]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 14 | 20 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| Rye_2015 | 11 | 16 | B. L. Rye. “A revision of the south-western Australian genus Babingtonia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae).”. Nuytsia 25 (2015), pp. 219-250. |
| Pickup_2021 | 5 | 5 | M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf. |
| Barrett_2009 | 4 | 4 | S. 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. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. 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_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |