Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa (F.Muell.) Craven

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Melaleuca symphyocarpa F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca symphyocarpa f. aurantiaca C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)
Myrtoleucodendron symphyocarpum (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (11), Dong_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (13), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 61 records in 14 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): resprouts (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 52.75 mm (31-75 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.75 mm (8-18 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.15 cm (0.1-0.2 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 169.41 g/m2 (169.41-169.41 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Dong_2017]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.21 mg/g (11.21-11.21 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -30.52 {delta}[ppth] (-30.52--30.52 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.28 mg (0.07-0.61 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 6 m (4-10 m) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	8	13	D. 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/.
Brock_1993	8	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Dong_2017	8	8	N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
NTH_2014	4	4	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Wright_2000	4	4	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. 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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Rice_1991	1	1	B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.