Eutaxia myrtifolia
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Eutaxia myrtifolia (Sm.) R.Br.
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Dillwynia myrtifolia Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Dillwynia obovata Labill. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eutaxia baxteri Knowles & Westc. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eutaxia myrtifolia (Sm.) R.Br. var. myrtifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
- Eutaxia myrtifolia var. angustifolia Meisn. (taxonomic synonym)
- Eutaxia obovata (Labill.) C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (20), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (6), Staples_2019 (77), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 141 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): fire_killed (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Standish_2019]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (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): 59.01 mm2 (50.92-68.81 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
- leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 7.04 mg (5.78-8.22 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 119.89 g/m2 (96.37-154.35 g/m2) [sources: Staples_2019]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Standish_2019]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.64 mg (2.64-2.64 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.86 mg/mm3 (0.82-0.9 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staples_2019 | 4 | 77 | T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 21 | 24 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| Barrett_2009 | 6 | 20 | S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009. |
| Standish_2019 | 6 | 6 | R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |