Kunzea praestans
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Kunzea praestans Schauer
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Kunzea incognita Toelken (taxonomic synonym)
- Kunzea recurva var. praestans (Schauer) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Kunzea sp. (D.J.E.Whibley 4887) (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Toelken_1996 (9), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 24 records in 8 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 (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): 5.65 mm (4.5-6.8 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996]
- leaf_width (numerical): 2.15 mm (1.8-2.5 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: 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]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1); nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_1998]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.27 m (0.6-2 m) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toelken_1996 | 6 | 9 | 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. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |