Melaleuca microphylla
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Melaleuca microphylla Sm.
Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Melaleuca brachyphylla Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca brevifolia F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Melaleuca tenuissima Tausch (taxonomic synonym)
- Myrtoleucodendron microphyllum (Sm.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA, SA (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (3), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 38 records in 13 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 (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
- fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]
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_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.3-0.5 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- 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
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.06 mg (0.06-0.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 4.12 m (1.5-5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Burrows_2008_2 | 4 | 4 | N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025). |
| Burrows_2020 | 4 | 4 | N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020. |
| 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. |
| Barrett_2009 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| 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/. |
| Sweedman_2006 | 2 | 2 | L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| 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. |