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Melaleuca ulicoides

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Melaleuca ulicoides Craven & Lepschi

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Melaleuca sp. Gorse (A.S.George 7224) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (4), Craven_2010 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 11 traits from 20 records in 7 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
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 7.95 mm (3.9-12 mm) [sources: Craven_2010]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.9 mm (1.1-2.7 mm) [sources: Craven_2010]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): mallee (1); shrub (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Craven_2010; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Craven_2010; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1) [sources: Craven_2010]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.18 mg (0.18-0.18 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Craven_2010; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Craven_201068L. 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_200944S. 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_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.