Calytrix depressa

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Calytrix depressa (Turcz.) Benth.

Synonyms: 12 (APC 2026-07-30)

Calycothrix depressa Turcz. (nomenclatural synonym)
Calycothrix rosea Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Calycothrix tenuifolia Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
Calythrix depressa Benth. (orthographic variant)
Calythrix stowardii S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Calythrix tenuifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Calythrix tenuifolia Benth. var. tenuifolia (taxonomic synonym)
Calythrix tenuifolia var. rigidior Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Calytrix stowardii S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Calytrix tenuifolia (Meisn.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Calytrix tenuifolia (Meisn.) Benth. var. tenuifolia (taxonomic synonym)
Calytrix tenuifolia var. rigidior Benth. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (3), Burrows_2020 (3), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Craven_1987 (12), Enright_2014 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_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 33 traits from 69 records in 16 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 (9) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Tsakalos_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (6) [sources: Clarke_2015; 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): 9.5 mm (2-17 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.05 mm (0.6-1.5 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 (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; 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): nnnnnnnnyyyn (2); nnnnnnnyyynn (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]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.89 mg (1.89-1.89 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
seed_width (numerical): 0.65 mm (0.6-0.7 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.2-1 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	8	12	L. Craven. “A taxonomic Revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae)”. Brunonia 10 (1987), pp. 1-138. doi: 10.1071/bru9870001.
Enright_2014	3	11	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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Burrows_2008_2	3	3	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	3	3	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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/.
Clarke_2015	2	2	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.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. 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.