Melaleuca globifera
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Melaleuca globifera R.Br.
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Myrtoleucodendron globiferum (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (17), Kew_2019_1 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 40 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): partial_resprouting (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5); tree (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.65 mg (0.44-0.86 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 3.5 m (1-6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrett_2009 | 7 | 17 | S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | 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. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 4 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| Wright_2000 | 4 | 4 | I. 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| WAH_1998 | 1 | 1 | Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |