Kunzea montana
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Kunzea montana (Diels) Domin
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Kunzea recurva var. montana Diels (nomenclatural synonym)
- Kunzea squarrosa Turcz. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Kunzea recurva Schauer var. recurva (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (10), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (7), Pickup_2021 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Toelken_1996 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 46 records in 12 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 (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (2.5-4.5 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996]
- leaf_width (numerical): 4.3 mm (3.6-5 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021; Toelken_1996; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.23 mg (0.22-0.23 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.75 m (1-2 m) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrett_2009 | 6 | 10 | 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. |
| Toelken_1996 | 6 | 8 | H. 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. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 7 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Pickup_2021 | 5 | 5 | M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf. |
| 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 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. 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. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://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. |