Calothamnus preissii
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Calothamnus preissii Schauer
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Calothamnus laxa Kunze (taxonomic synonym)
- Calothamnus laxus Kunze (taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca preissii (Schauer) Craven & R.D.Edwards (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Harvey_2017 (6), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 24 records in 10 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: Harvey_2017]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
- serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.14 mg (0.14-0.14 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.28 m (0.15-0.4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvey_2017 | 6 | 6 | J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011. |
| 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 2 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| 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. |
| RBGK_2014 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |