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Kunzea ericifolia

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Kunzea ericifolia (Sm.) Heynh.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Kunzea ericaefolia Heynh. (orthographic variant)
  • Metrosideros ericifolia Sm. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (4), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Staples_2019 (80), Sweedman_2006 (3), Toelken_1996 (7), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 30 traits from 136 records in 15 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 8.47 mm2 (5.38-12.02 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 27.75 mm (3-63 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.9 mm (0.5-1.5 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 1.34 mg (0.84-1.85 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 158.98 g/m2 (126.42-216.59 g/m2) [sources: Staples_2019]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Standish_2019; Toelken_1996; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019; Toelken_1996; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2.5 a (2.5-2.5 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.28 mg (1.28-1.28 mg) [sources: Standish_2019]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.69 mg/mm3 (0.65-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.83 m (1-4 m) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Staples_2019480T. 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.
Wheeler_2002810J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Toelken_199657H. R. Toelken. “A revision of the genus Kunzea (Myrtaceae) I. The western Australian section Zeanuk”. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 17 (1996), pp. 29-106.
Burrows_2008_255N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_202055N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Barrett_200944S. 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.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.