Leptospermum jingera

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Leptospermum jingera Lyne & Crisp

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cheal_2017 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Pickup_2021 (1), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 64 records in 10 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): resprouts (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 9 mm (6-10 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3.12 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); involute (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: McGlone_2015; Pickup_2021; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); transient (1) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.13 mg (0.13-0.13 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	16	20	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	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.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Pickup_2021	1	1	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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.