AusTraits

Astus wittweri

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Astus wittweri Trudgen & Rye

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (25), Trudgen_2005 (14), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 47 records in 6 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): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.2 mm (2.2-2.2 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]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1) [sources: Trudgen_2005]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.4 mm (1.2-1.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Trudgen_2005]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Trudgen_2005]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.25 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Trudgen_2005; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231825Australian 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.