Calytrix verticillata
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Calytrix verticillata Craven
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Craven_1987 (12), Kew_2019_1 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 27 records in 7 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) [sources: Clarke_2015; RussellSmith_2012]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
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): 2.75 mm (1.5-4 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.2 mm (0.1-0.3 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: Craven_1987; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Craven_1987; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1) [sources: Craven_1987]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.2 mg (1.2-1.2 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 1.75 mm (1.75-1.75 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
- seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Craven_1987]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: Craven_1987]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craven_1987 | 8 | 12 | L. Craven. “A taxonomic Revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae)”. Brunonia 10 (1987), pp. 1-138. doi: 10.1071/bru9870001. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. 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_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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |