AusTraits

Astus subroseus

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Astus subroseus Trudgen & Rye

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Baeckea sp. Burngup (A.M.Coates 4423) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (22), Collette_2021 (1), Trudgen_2005 (14), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 45 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.8 mm (1.8-1.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Trudgen_2005; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Trudgen_2005; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); dense (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Trudgen_2005]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.3 mm (1.3-1.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Trudgen_2005]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.8-0.8 mm) [sources: Trudgen_2005]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.05 m (0.3-1.5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Trudgen_2005; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231722Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Trudgen_2005914M. E. Trudgen and B. L. Rye. “Astus, a new western Australian genus of Myrtaceae with heterocarpidic fruits”. Nuytsia 14 (2005), pp. 495-512.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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.