Calytrix chrysantha
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Calytrix chrysantha Craven
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Craven_1987 (8), Enright_2014 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (17), Tsakalos_2022 (2), 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 27 traits from 46 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2); resprouts (1) [sources: Enright_2014; Tsakalos_2020]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Enright_2014]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 2.62 mm (1.25-4 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.12 mm (1-1.25 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Craven_1987; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Craven_1987; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Craven_1987; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Enright_2014]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.9 m (0.3-1.3 m) [sources: Craven_1987; WAH_2023_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tsakalos_2020 | 16 | 17 | J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787. |
| Craven_1987 | 6 | 8 | L. Craven. “A taxonomic Revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae)”. Brunonia 10 (1987), pp. 1-138. doi: 10.1071/bru9870001. |
| Enright_2014 | 3 | 5 | N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, B. B. Lamont, B. P. Miller, and V. C. Westcott. “Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits”. Journal of Ecology 102 (2014), pp. 1572-1581. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12306. |
| 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 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Tsakalos_2022 | 2 | 2 | J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131. |
| 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. |
| 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. |