Gossia shepherdii
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Gossia shepherdii (F.Muell.) N.Snow & Guymer
Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Austromyrtus shepherdii (F.Muell.) L.S.Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Austromyrtus sp. (Pinnacle Track) (taxonomic synonym)
- Austromyrtus sp. (Windsor Tableland B.Gray 412) (taxonomic synonym)
- Austromyrtus sp. (Windsor Tableland BG 412) (taxonomic synonym)
- Austromyrtus sp. (Windsor Tableland) (taxonomic synonym)
- Eugenia shepherdii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Myrtus shepherdi F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Myrtus shepherdii F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 40 records in 7 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (30-100 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (15-55 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- dispersers (categorical): flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.7 mg/mm3 (0.7-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kooyman_2011 | 9 | 13 | R. 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_2013 | 9 | 11 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Sams_2017 | 5 | 5 | M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627. |
| Gross_2005 | 4 | 4 | C. 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_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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |