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Kunzea recurva

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Kunzea recurva Schauer

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Kunzea recurva Schauer var. recurva (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Kunzea recurva var. melaleucoides F.Muell. ex Benth. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
  • Kunzea spicata S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (9), Burrows_2008_2 (5), Burrows_2020 (7), Clarke_2015 (3), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), Pekin_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Sweedman_2006 (3), Toelken_1996 (9), 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 28 traits from 74 records in 18 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 (4); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Clarke_2015; Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015]
  • fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 48 mo (48-48 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 3 mm (1.9-5 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.72 mm (1.7-4 mm) [sources: Toelken_1996; Wheeler_2002]
  • 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
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Standish_2019; Toelken_1996; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (9) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Pekin_2011; 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): decumbent (1); erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (2) [sources: Pekin_2011; Standish_2019]
  • reproductive_maturity (numerical): 4 a (4-4 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyy (2) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (3); soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; Standish_2019]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); none (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.09 mg (0.07-0.1 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.35 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Toelken_1996; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
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.
Barrett_200979S. 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_199669H. 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_202057N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Standish_201977R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
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).
Pekin_201144B. K. Pekin, R. S. Wittkuhn, M. M. Boer, C. Macfarlane, and P. F. Grierson. “Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem”. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (2011), pp. 1009-1020. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01323.x.
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/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
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.