AusTraits

Ericomyrtus drummondii

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Ericomyrtus drummondii Turcz.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Baeckea sp. fine-leaved (C.M.Lewis 517) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Baeckea pulchella DC. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (27), Munroe_2019 (1), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 43 records in 6 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.5-0.6 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 1.3 mm (1.2-1.4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.7-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 2.1 mm (1.7-2.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 0.52 mm (0.4-0.65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.32 mm (0.3-0.35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.2-0.6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231827Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022911L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.
Stephens_202111R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.