AusTraits

Lophostemon grandiflorus subsp. riparius

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Lophostemon grandiflorus subsp. riparius (Domin) Peter G.Wilson & J.T.Waterh.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tristania riparia Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Tristania suaveolens var. riparia Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tristania suaveolens (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Sm. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gross_2005 (4), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), 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 12 traits from 20 records in 7 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 9 m (3-15 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.