AusTraits

Austromyrtus dulcis

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Austromyrtus dulcis (C.T.White) L.S.Sm.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Myrtus dulcis C.T.White (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Myrtus tenuifolia var. latifolia Maiden & Betche (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (4), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (15), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (9), Pickup_2021 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 60 traits from 105 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): white (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 182.06 mm2 (116.22-279 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (3-11 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.1-0.3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 121.91 g/m2 (116.53-128.48 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Pickup_2021; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1); yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.37 mg (2-2.8 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.77 mg/mm3 (0.76-0.79 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (0.5-1.5 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231217N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221717L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
McCarthy_2017315J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Wright_20001010I. 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.
NSWFRD_201479B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Kew_2019_114Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickup_202133M. 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.
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.