Calytrix brevifolia
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Calytrix brevifolia (Meisn.) Benth.
Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Calycothrix brevifolia Meisn. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Calycothrix muricata F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Calythrix brevifolia Benth. (orthographic variant)
- Calythrix muricata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Calythrix muricata Benth. var. muricata (taxonomic synonym)
- Calythrix muricata var. parvifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Calytrix muricata (F.Muell.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
- Calytrix muricata (F.Muell.) Benth. var. muricata (taxonomic synonym)
- Calytrix muricata var. parvifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Craven_1987 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 28 records in 11 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_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (3-14 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Craven_1987; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Craven_1987; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (1); ynnyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Craven_1987; WAH_1998]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 8.32 mg (8.32-8.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.82 m (0.3-2.5 m) [sources: Craven_1987; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craven_1987 | 6 | 8 | L. Craven. “A taxonomic Revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae)”. Brunonia 10 (1987), pp. 1-138. doi: 10.1071/bru9870001. |
| 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. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 4 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z. |
| 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. |