Melaleuca lateriflora

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Melaleuca lateriflora Benth.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Melaleuca lateriflora Benth. subsp. lateriflora (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca lateriflora Benth. var. lateriflora (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca lateriflora var. elliptica Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Myrtoleucodendron lateriflorum (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (13), Clarke_2015 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Gosper_2012 (6), Gosper_2018 (6), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), Shedley_2007 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Standish_2019 (7), Staples_2019 (77), Stephens_2021 (1), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2022 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (6), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (4), Wenk_2023 (2), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 184 records in 21 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 (7); resprouts (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Gosper_2012; Gosper_2018; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (9) [sources: Barrett_2009; Clarke_2015; Shedley_2007]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

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

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 24.71 mm2 (14.78-32.04 mm2) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_length (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 2 mm (1-3 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 3.14 mg (1.51-7.46 mg) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 125.93 g/m2 (75.26-245.62 g/m2) [sources: Staples_2019]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (19); tree (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012; Gosper_2018; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Gosper_2018]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: Gosper_2018; Standish_2019; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Standish_2019]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (2) [sources: Stephens_2021; WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (10); soil_seedbank_absent (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Gosper_2012; Gosper_2018; Shedley_2007; Standish_2019]
serotiny (categorical): serotinous (2) [sources: Gosper_2012; Gosper_2018]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2022]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.37 mg (0.2-0.47 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Standish_2019]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.84 mg/mm3 (0.82-0.87 mg/mm3) [sources: Staples_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.17 m (1-8 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Staples_2019	4	77	T. Staples, J. M. Dwyer, J. R. England, and M. M. Mayfield. “Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28.10 (2019), pp. 1417-1429. doi: 10.1111/geb.12962.
Shedley_2007	4	23	E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007.
Barrett_2009	5	13	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.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Standish_2019	7	7	R. Standish. “Unpublished data: Jarrah forest, Murdoch University”. 2019.
Gosper_2012	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, and S. M. Prober. “Changes in plant species and functional composition with time since fire in two mediterranean climate plant communities”. Journal of Vegetation Science 23.6 (2012), pp. 1071-1081. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01434.x.
Gosper_2018	6	6	C. R. Gosper, C. J. Yates, G. D. Cook, J. M. Harvey, A. C. Liedloff, W. L. McCaw, K. R. Thiele, and S. M. Prober. “A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics for the unique obligate-seeder eucalypt woodlands of south-western Australia”. Austral Ecology 43.6 (2018), pp. 681-695. doi: 10.1111/aec.12613.
Kew_2019_6	1	6	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2022_2	3	6	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	2	4	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.
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.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	4	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Tsakalos_2022	2	2	J. L. Tsakalos, G. Ottaviani, S. Chelli, A. Rea, S. Elder, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Plant clonality in a soil-impoverished open ecosystem: insights from southwest Australian shrublands”. Annals of Botany 130.7 (2022), pp. 981-990. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac131.
Wenk_2023	1	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Stephens_2021	1	1	R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.