Baeckea imbricata
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Baeckea imbricata (Gaertn.) Druce
Synonyms: 20 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Baeckea crenulata (Sm.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Baeckea crenulata (Sm.) DC. var. crenulata (taxonomic synonym)
- Baeckea crenulata var. tenella (Gaertn.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Baeckea diosmoides Sieber ex DC. (taxonomic synonym)
- Baeckea imbricata (Gaertn.) Druce var. imbricata (nomenclatural synonym)
- Baeckea imbricata var. tenella (Gaertn.) Hochr. (taxonomic synonym)
- Baeckea imbricata var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
- Escallonia crenulata (Sm.) Schult. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Imbricaria crenulata Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Jungia imbricata Gaertn. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Jungia tenella Gaertn. (taxonomic synonym)
- Mollia imbricata (Gaertn.) J.F.Gmel. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Philadelphus tenellus Gaertn. (taxonomic synonym)
- Schidiomyrtus crenulata (Sm.) Schauer (nomenclatural synonym)
- Schidiomyrtus ericacea Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
- Schidiomyrtus sieberi Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
- Schidiomyrtus tenella (Gaertn.) Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
- Schidiomyrtus tenella (Gaertn.) Schauer var. tenella (taxonomic synonym)
- Schidiomyrtus tenellus Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
- Stereoxylon crenulata (Sm.) Poir. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Bean_1997 (9), Clarke_2015 (1), Collette_2021 (1), Hughes_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kubiak_2009 (7), Leishman_1993 (1), Leishman_1995 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), NSWFRD_2014 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 73 records in 15 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 (3); resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 8.1 mm2 (8.1-8.1 mm2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
- leaf_length (numerical): 3.98 mm (2.4-6 mm) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.35 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.05 cm (0.05-0.05 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 95.42 g/m2 (95.42-95.42 g/m2) [sources: Leishman_1995]
- leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); ovate (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1); flat (1) [sources: 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): shrub (7) [sources: Bean_1997; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Leishman_1995]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyynnnnnnn (1); yynnnnnnyyyy (2); yyyynnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Bean_1997; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.03-0.61 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Leishman_1993]
- seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.85 m (0.6-1 m) [sources: Bean_1997; Hughes_1992; Leishman_1995; NHNSW_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2023 | 15 | 17 | N. 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/. |
| NSWFRD_2014 | 9 | 14 | B. 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. |
| Bean_1997 | 7 | 9 | A. Bean. “A revision of Baeckea (Myrtaceae) in eastern Australia, Malesia and south-east Asia”. Telopea 7 (1997), pp. 245-268. doi: 10.1.1.520.6315. |
| Kubiak_2009 | 4 | 7 | P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165. |
| Leishman_1995 | 5 | 5 | M. R. Leishman, M. Westoby, and E. Jurado. “Correlates of seed size variation: A comparison among five temperate floras”. Journal of Ecology 83 (1995), pp. 517-529. doi: 10.2307/2261604. |
| 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. |
| Hughes_1992 | 3 | 3 | L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 3 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 3 | 3 | N. 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/. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 1 | 1 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| 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. |
| Leishman_1993 | 1 | 1 | M. Leishman. “Unpublished data: Seed mass data for Sydney species, Macquarie University”. 1990. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |