Kunzea pulchella
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Kunzea pulchella (Lindl.) A.S.George
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Kunzea pulchella var. albiflora Grieve (taxonomic synonym)
- Kunzea sericea Turcz. (taxonomic synonym)
- Kunzea sericea Turcz. var. sericea (taxonomic synonym)
- Kunzea sericea var. albiflora S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
- Kunzea sericea var. glabra C.A.Gardner (taxonomic synonym)
- Salisia pulchella Lindl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (6), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Shedley_2007 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), 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 24 traits from 51 records in 14 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 (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Shedley_2007]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (5) [sources: Clarke_2015; Shedley_2007]
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]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4) [sources: Shedley_2007]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.13-0.23 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 1.85 mm (1.85-1.85 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.85-0.85 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
- seed_shape (categorical): fusiform (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.89 mg/mm3 (0.89-0.89 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.8 m (0.6-3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shedley_2007 | 5 | 20 | E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007. |
| ANBG_2019 | 6 | 6 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| 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. |
| Clarke_2015 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 3 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 1 | 3 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |
| Ilic_2000 | 1 | 1 | J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |