Leptospermum nitidum

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Leptospermum nitidum Hook.f.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Leptospermum flavescens var. nitidum (Hook.f.) Rodway (nomenclatural synonym)
Leptospermum pubescens var. nitidum (Hook.f.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), French_2017 (3), Jordan_2001 (6), Jordan_2007 (8), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (4), Kirkpatrick_2020 (3), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (2), Schmidt_1993 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 44 records in 13 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; French_2017; Kirkpatrick_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 43.42 mm2 (24-62.83 mm2) [sources: Jordan_2007; Mokany_2015]
leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 144 g/m2 (144-144 g/m2) [sources: Jordan_2007]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Jordan_2007]
root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1); soil_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; French_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.09 mg (0.09-0.1 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 2.04 mm (2.04-2.04 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
seed_width (numerical): 0.47 mm (0.47-0.47 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 12 m (12-12 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Jordan_2007	8	8	G. J. Jordan. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for Tasmanian species, University of Tasmania”. 2007.
Jordan_2001	6	6	G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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.
Kew_2019_6	1	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
French_2017	3	3	B. J. French, L. D. Prior, G. J. Williamson, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Cause and effects of a megafire in sedge-heathland in the Tasmanian temperate wilderness”. Australian Journal of Botany 64.6 (2016), pp. 513-525. doi: 10.1071/bt16087.
Kirkpatrick_2020	3	3	J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Mokany_2015	2	2	K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.