Melaleuca ferruginea
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Melaleuca ferruginea Craven & Cowie
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Melaleuca dealbata subsp. glabrescens Kenneally, Edinger & T.Willing (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca sp. ('red bark', D120590) (taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca sp. D20720 (taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca sp. Red Bark (P.S.Brocklehurst 457) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca sp. nov. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Clarke_2009 (3), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 8 traits from 10 records in 4 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 (2) [sources: Clarke_2009; RussellSmith_2012]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (1) [sources: Clarke_2009; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2009]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. 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. |
| Clarke_2009 | 3 | 3 | P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |