Melaleuca protrusa
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Melaleuca protrusa Craven & Lepschi
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Melaleuca sp. Mine fruit (W.O'Sullivan 1629) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Craven_2010 (8), Munroe_2019 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 9 traits from 13 records in 5 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (40-90 mm) [sources: Craven_2010]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.2 mm (0.9-1.5 mm) [sources: Craven_2010]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: Craven_2010; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Craven_2010; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Craven_2010]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): non_dormant (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: Craven_2010]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craven_2010 | 6 | 8 | L. A. Craven, B. J. Lepschi, and K. J. Cowley. “Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) of Western Australia: Five new species, three new combinations, one new name and a new state record.”. Nuytsia 20 (2010), pp. 27-36. |
| 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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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. |
| 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |