Melaleuca stenostachya

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Melaleuca stenostachya S.T.Blake

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (31). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 47 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

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): 150 mm2 (150-150 mm2) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 156.4 g/m2 (156.4-156.4 g/m2) [sources: Westoby_2014]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): ynyyyyyyyyny (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.55 mg/g (12.55-12.55 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.68 mg/g (0.68-0.68 mg/g) [sources: Westoby_2014]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.39 {delta}[ppth] (-26.39--26.39 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Westoby_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.13 mg (0.07-0.19 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.6 mg/mm3) [sources: Westoby_2014]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Westoby_2014	31	31	S. M. Gleason, D. W. Butler, K. Zieminska, P. Waryszak, and M. Westoby. “Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species”. Functional Ecology 26 (2012), pp. 343-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01962.x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.