AusTraits

Gossia grayi

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Gossia grayi N.Snow & Guymer

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Austromyrtus sp. (=RFK/1620) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Austromyrtus sp. (Gillies B.Gray 1484) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Austromyrtus sp. (Gillies BG 1484) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Austromyrtus sp. (Gillies) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Austromyrtus sp. (Leo Creek BG 5244) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Austromyrtus sp. (Leo Creek) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Gossia grayii Bostock & A.E.Holland (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (8), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (8), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (4) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.5 mm (7-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (7-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 105 mm (60-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (30-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 18 m (18-18 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Gross_200548C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.