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Melaleuca dealbata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Melaleuca dealbata S.T.Blake

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melaleuca dealbata subsp. glabrescens Kenneally, Edinger & T.Willing (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca sp. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (14), Pate_1998 (6), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 92 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 3.38 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3.62 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 88 mm (42-130 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 20.33 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.4-0.9 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Pate_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Pate_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Pate_1998]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1); nnnnnnnyyyyn (2); ynnnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -25.69 {delta}[ppth] (-25.69--25.69 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Pate_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.2 mg (0.02-0.36 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 17 m (5-25 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_2023914D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011811R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Pate_199866J. S. Pate, M. J. Unkovich, P. D. Erskine, and G. R. Stewart. “Australian mulga ecosystems- 13C and 15N natural abundances of biota components and their ecophysiological significance”. Plant, Cell and Environment 21.12 (1998), pp. 1231-1242. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00359.x.
Wright_200066I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
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.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
Kew_2019_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.