AusTraits

Cyathostemon heterantherus

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Cyathostemon heterantherus (C.A.Gardner) Rye & Trudgen

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Astartea heteranthera C.A.Gardner (basionym)

Distribution (APC): WA, Vic (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (2), Burrows_2020 (2), Cheal_2017 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 6 traits from 14 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
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Cheal_2017; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.08 m (0.15-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Burrows_2008_222N. 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_202022N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Cheal_201711D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.