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Melaleuca viridiflora

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Melaleuca viridiflora Sol. ex Gaertn.

Synonyms: 21 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cajuputi viridiflora (Sol. ex Gaertn.) A.Lyons (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Melaleuca albiflora Raeusch. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca cunninghami Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca cunninghamii Schauer (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca cunninghamii var. glabra C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendra var. cunninghamii (Schauer) Cheel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendra var. cunninghamii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendra var. latifolia C.Riviere (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendra var. sanguinea Cheel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendra var. viridiflora (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Cheel (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendron var. cunninghamii Cheel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendron var. latifolia C.Riviere (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendron var. sanguinea Cheel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca leucadendron var. viridiflora Cheel (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Melaleuca sanguinea Cheel (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca viridiflora Sol. ex Gaertn. var. viridiflora (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Melaleuca viridiflora var. attenuata Byrnes (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca viridiflora var. canescens Byrnes (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melaleuca viridiflora var. glabra (C.T.White) Byrnes (taxonomic synonym)
  • Metrosideros albida DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Myrtoleucodendron viridiflorum (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (1), Dong_2017 (22), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (4), Kooyman_2011 (11), Lawes_2012 (8), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), Nano_2011 (1), Prior_2003 (377), Rice_1991 (1), Richards_2008 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (37), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), Tomlinson_2013 (19), Tomlinson_2019 (226), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2014 (31), White_2020 (20), Wright_2000 (1), Wright_2008 (9), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 109 traits from 882 records in 35 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2494.95 mm2 (1250-4779.33 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003; Tomlinson_2013; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 160.83 mm (70-220 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.15 cm (0.8-1.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 239.84 g/m2 (20.61-334.91 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Prior_2003; Tomlinson_2013; Tomlinson_2019; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Zieminska_2015]
  • leaf_area_ratio (numerical): 5.54 mm2/mg (5.54-5.54 mm2/mg) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
  • leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.55 g/g (0.55-0.55 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.02-0.49 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Tomlinson_2013]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.53 g/g (1.03-2.85 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (4) [sources: Munroe_2019; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (10) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Schmidt_2003; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (6) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Tomlinson_2013]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (5) [sources: Dong_2017; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; White_2020; Wright_2008]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyynnnnnnn (1); yyyynnnnnnyy (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyynnnn (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.07 mg/g (4.9-64.35 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Prior_2003; Richards_2008; Schmidt_2003; Tomlinson_2013; Tomlinson_2019; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.79 mg/g (0.24-4.45 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Richards_2008; Tomlinson_2013; Tomlinson_2019; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.83 {delta}[ppth] (-31.5--26.93 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Westoby_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.26 mg (0.04-0.47 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.48-0.86 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Westoby_2014; Wright_2008; Zieminska_2015]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Westoby_2014; Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.2-0.2 g/g) [sources: Tomlinson_2013]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 132.79 {count}/mm2 (111.73-166.98 {count}/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 40.12 um (38.82-41 um) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.17 mm2/mm2 (0.14-0.22 mm2/mm2) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Prior_200321377L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
Tomlinson_201911226K. W. Tomlinson, F. J. Sterck, E. R. M. Barbosa, S. de Bie, H. H. T. Prins, and F. van Langevelde. “Seedling growth of savanna tree species from three continents under grass competition and nutrient limitation in a greenhouse experiment”. Journal of Ecology 107.3 (2019), pp. 1051-1066. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13085.
Schmidt_20031137S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Zieminska_20151236K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
Westoby_20143131S. 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.
Dong_2017822N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Tomlinson_20131919K. W. Tomlinson, L. Poorter, F. J. Sterck, F. Borghetti, D. Ward, S. de Bie, and F. van Langevelde. “Leaf adaptations of evergreen and deciduous trees of semi-arid and humid savannas on three continents”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2013), pp. 430-440. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12056.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_2023812D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011811R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Wright_200899I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
Lawes_201218M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Kew_2019_614Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_200644A. 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.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Ilic_200012J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Richards_200822A. Richards and I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Transcription of Australian plant functional trait data from Ian Wright's collection of papers, Macquarie University”. 2009.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Crowley_200711G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Munroe_201911S. 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.
Nano_201111C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.