Eremaea pauciflora

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eremaea pauciflora (Endl.) Druce

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Melaleuca rariflora Craven & R.D.Edwards (nomenclatural synonym)
Metrosideros pauciflora Endl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Clarke_2015 (2), Collette_2021 (1), Enright_2014 (7), Goble_1981 (2), Gosper_2012 (6), Liu_2023 (146), Moles_2011 (7), Munroe_2019 (1), RBGK_2014 (2), Shedley_2007 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Sweedman_2006 (3), Tsakalos_2022 (2), Veneklaas_2003 (20), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10), Wilson_2004 (3), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 71 traits from 257 records in 25 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 (5); resprouts (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Shedley_2007; Wilson_2004]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (6) [sources: Clarke_2015; Enright_2014; Shedley_2007]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4.77 mm2 (3.47-6.07 mm2) [sources: Goble_1981; Moles_2011]
leaf_length (numerical): 5.5 mm (3-8 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 1 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 214.53 g/m2 (144.18-312 g/m2) [sources: Goble_1981; Liu_2023; Moles_2011; Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.47 g/g (0.44-0.5 g/g) [sources: Moles_2011; Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.5 g/g (0.5-0.5 g/g) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_type (categorical): needle (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Moles_2011]
leaf_hairs_immature_leaves (categorical): hairy (1) [sources: Moles_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Veneklaas_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (8) [sources: Gosper_2012; Moles_2011; Shedley_2007; Veneklaas_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Veneklaas_2003]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnyyyyyy (2) [sources: Stephens_2021; WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (2); soil_seedbank (4); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Enright_2014; Gosper_2012; Shedley_2007]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Gosper_2012]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Tsakalos_2022]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.02 mg/g (6.76-11.6 mg/g) [sources: Liu_2023; Veneklaas_2003]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.33 mg/g (0.22-0.52 mg/g) [sources: Liu_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.78 mg (1.12-12.44 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3 m (2-4 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Moles_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Liu_2023	15	146	S. T. Liu, C. E. Gille, T. Bird, K. Ranathunge, P. M. Finnegan, and H. Lambers. “Leaf phosphorus allocation to chemical fractions and its seasonal variation in south-western Australia is a species-dependent trait”. Science of The Total Environment 901 (2023), p. 166395. ISSN: 0048-9697. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166395.
Veneklaas_2003	18	20	E. J. Veneklaas and P. Poot. “Seasonal patterns in water use and leaf turnover of different plant functional types in a species-rich woodland, south-western Australia”. Plant and Soil 257.2 (2003), pp. 295-304. doi: 10.1023/a:1027383920150.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	10	11	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Shedley_2007	5	10	E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Enright_2014	3	7	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.
Moles_2011	7	7	A. T. Moles, I. R. Wallis, W. J. Foley, D. I. Warton, J. C. Stegen, A. J. Bisigato, L. Cella-Pizarro, C. J. Clark, P. S. Cohen, W. K. Cornwell, W. Edwards, R. Ejrnaes, T. Gonzales-Ojeda, B. J. Graae, G. Hay, F. C. Lumbwe, B. Magana-Rodriguez, B. D. Moore, P. L. Peri, J. R. Poulsen, R. Veldtman, H. von Zeipel, N. R. Andrew, S. L. Boulter, E. T. Borer, F. F. Campon, M. Coll, A. G. Farji-Brener, J. D. Gabriel, E. Jurado, L. A. Kyhn, B. Low, C. P. H. Mulder, K. Reardon-Smith, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, E. W. Seabloom, P. A. Vesk, A. van Cauter, M. S. Waldram, Z. Zheng, P. G. Blendinger, B. J. Enquist, J. M. Facelli, T. Knight, J. D. Majer, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. McQuillan, and L. D. Prior. “Putting plant resistance traits on the map: A test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes”. New Phytologist 191.3 (2011), pp. 777-788. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03732.x.
Gosper_2012	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
Burrows_2008_2	5	5	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	5	5	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
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	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Wilson_2004	2	3	B. A. Wilson, J. Kuehs, L. E. Valentine, T. Sonneman, and K. M. Wolfe. “Guidelines for ecological burning regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems: a case study in Banksia woodlands in Western Australia”. Pacific Conservation Biology 20.1 (2014), p. 57. doi: 10.1071/pc140057.
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.
Goble_1981	2	2	E. Goble-Garratt, D. Bell, and W. Loneragan. “Floristic and leaf structure patterns along a shallow elevational gradient”. Australian Journal of Botany 29 (1981), pp. 329-347. doi: 10.1071/bt9810329.
RBGK_2014	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
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.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. 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.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://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.