AusTraits

Baeckea kandos

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Baeckea kandos A.R.Bean

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

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Bean_1997 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 42 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 1.25 mm (1-1.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • 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_length (numerical): 4.78 mm (3.3-6 mm) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.78 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.05 cm (0.05-0.05 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_obovate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1); terete (1) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.04 mg (0.04-0.04 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 mm) [sources: Bean_1997]
  • seed_shape (categorical): polyhedral (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.88 m (1.5-2 m) [sources: Bean_1997; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231419N. 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/.
Bean_1997811A. 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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.