Melaleuca sophisma
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Melaleuca sophisma Lepschi
Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Melaleuca sp. Kundip (G.F.Craig 6020) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (7), Craven_2010 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 19 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 4.7 mm (3.1-6.3 mm) [sources: Craven_2010]
- leaf_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (1.1-2.1 mm) [sources: Craven_2010]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; 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): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Craven_2010]
- seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.19 mg (0.19-0.19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 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. |
| Barrett_2009 | 4 | 7 | 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. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |