Callistemon viminalis

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Callistemon viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) G.Don

Synonyms: 19 (APC 2026-07-30)

Callistemon sp. 'Boulia' (L.Pedley 5297) (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon sp. (Boulia L.Pedley 5297) (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon sp. (Marlborough Creek G.N.Batianoff+ MC9108006) (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon sp. (Rainbow Falls P.I.Forster PIF13786) (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon sp. Boulia (L.Pedley 5297) (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon sp. Prince Regent (W.O'Sullivan & D.Dureau WODD 71) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon sp. Rainbow Falls (P.I.Forster PIF13786) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) G.Don subsp. viminalis (nomenclatural synonym)
Callistemon viminalis subsp. Rhododendron (W.Stanford s.n. CANB 780382) Australian National Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Callistemon viminalis subsp. rhododendron (Craven) Udovicic & R.D.Spencer (taxonomic synonym)
Melaleuca sp. (Marlborough Creek G.N.Batianoff+ MC9108006) (taxonomic synonym)
Melaleuca sp. (Rainbow Falls P.I.Forster PIF13786) (taxonomic synonym)
Melaleuca sp. Marlborough Creek (G.N.Batianoff+ MC9108006) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Melaleuca viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Byrnes (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Byrnes subsp. viminalis (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca viminalis (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Byrnes var. viminalis (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca viminalis subsp. rhododendron Craven (taxonomic synonym)
Melaleuca viminalis var. minor Byrnes (taxonomic synonym)
Metrosideros viminalis Sol. ex Gaertn. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, SA, Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), McCarthy_2017 (2), Mesaglio_2022 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), Roderick_2002 (15), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (3), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 37 traits from 104 records in 20 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (7) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 492.93 mm2 (147.74-1070 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; Roderick_2002]
leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (3-15 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 99.01 mg (46.3-137.25 mg) [sources: Roderick_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 138.98 g/m2 (138.98-138.98 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (6) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnynn (2); nnnnnnnnyynn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyy (1); ynnnnnnnnnnn (1); yynnnyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Mesaglio_2022; NHNSW_2014_2]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.35 mg (0.35-0.35 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.66 mg/mm3 (0.64-0.69 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 12.67 m (8-15 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	12	16	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/.
Roderick_2002	4	15	M. L. Roderick and M. J. Cochrane. “On the conservative nature of the leaf mass-area relationship”. Annals of Botany 89.5 (2002), pp. 537-542. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcf100.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	R. 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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Mesaglio_2022	1	4	T. Mesaglio. “Unpublished data: Comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River, western Sydney”. 2022. doi: 10.32942/X29886.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_2000	4	4	I. 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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	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.
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/.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	3	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
McCarthy_2017	2	2	J. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NTH_2023	2	2	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
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.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.