Ericomyrtus serpyllifolia

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Ericomyrtus serpyllifolia (Turcz.) Rye

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)

Babingtonia crispiflora (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Baeckea crispiflora (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Baeckea crispiflora (F.Muell.) F.Muell. var. crispiflora (nomenclatural synonym)
Baeckea crispiflora subsp. Ongerup (A.Scougall & C.Garawanta E35) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Baeckea crispiflora var. platycephala Blackall (taxonomic synonym)
Baeckea platycephala E.Pritz. (taxonomic synonym)
Baeckea serpillifolia F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Baeckea serpyllifolia (Turcz.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Baeckea thymoides S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Harmogia crispiflora F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Harmogia serpyllifolia Turcz. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (27), Collette_2021 (3), Harvey_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (2), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_2022_2 (10), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 75 records in 11 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.9 mm (1.6-2.2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.4 mm (2.2-2.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.4 mm (2.2-2.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 4 mm (2.5-5.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 2.25 mm (1.5-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): concave (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Harvey_2017]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (3) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.11 mg (0.11-0.11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.55-0.95 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 0.52 mm (0.5-0.55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.02 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	18	27	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Tsakalos_2020	15	16	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
WAH_2022_2	4	10	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Harvey_2017	6	6	J. M. Harvey, A. J. M. Hopkins, M. A. Langley, C. R. Gosper, M. R. Williams, and C. J. Yates. “Long-term studies of post-fire reproduction in an Australian shrubland and woodland”. Australian Journal of Botany 65.4 (2017), p. 339. doi: 10.1071/bt17011.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Collette_2021	1	3	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.
WAH_2023_2	1	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Munroe_2019	1	2	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.
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.