AusTraits

Calytrix exstipulata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Calytrix exstipulata DC.

Synonyms: 22 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Calycothrix baueri Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calycothrix conferta (A.Cunn.) Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calycothrix cupressifolia (A.Rich.) Stapf (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calycothrix cupressoides (A.Rich.) Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calycothrix microphylla Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix baueri Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix conferta A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix cupressifolia A.Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix cupressoides A.Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix exstipulata DC. (orthographic variant)
  • Calythrix interstans S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix microphylla A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix microphylla A.Cunn. var. microphylla (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calythrix wickhamiana S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrhix cupressoides A.Rich. (orthographic variant)
  • Calytrix conferta A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrix cupressifolia A.Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrix cupressoides A.Rich. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrix interstans S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrix microphylla A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrix microphylla A.Cunn. var. microphylla (taxonomic synonym)
  • Calytrix wickhamiana S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Clarke_2015 (3), Craven_1987 (12), Crowley_2007 (1), Dong_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Lord_1997 (2), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (8), Nano_2011 (1), Rice_1991 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (55), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 139 records in 23 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1 mm2 (1-1 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 1.83 mm (0.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Craven_1987; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.25-1 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Craven_1987; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 133.33 g/m2 (88.17-178.48 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.02-0.27 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1); narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7); tree (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Craven_1987; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Brock_1993; Craven_1987; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: NTH_2014; Schmidt_2003]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1); nnyyyyyyynnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Craven_1987; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.08 mg/g (5-12 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.34 mg/g (0.34-0.34 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.56 {delta}[ppth] (-29.15--26.72 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.69 mg (2.69-2.69 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (3-3.5 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.72 mm (0.7-0.75 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.61-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Wright_2008]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3.12 m (0.5-4.5 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Craven_1987; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Schmidt_20031155S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Craven_1987812L. Craven. “A taxonomic Revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae)”. Brunonia 10 (1987), pp. 1-138. doi: 10.1071/bru9870001.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Wright_200899I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Dong_201788N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
NTH_202368D. 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/.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Lord_199722J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
Sweedman_200622L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. 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.
Nano_201111C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.