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Micromyrtus elobata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Micromyrtus elobata (F.Muell.) Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Thryptomene elobata F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (1), Collette_2021 (1), Rye_2006 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 15 traits from 29 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (1-6 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (0.8-1.5 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Barrett_2009; Rye_2006; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Rye_2006; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (2) [sources: Rye_2006; WAH_1998]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.45 mm (1.4-1.5 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.8 m (0.1-1.5 m) [sources: Rye_2006; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Rye_2006813B. L. Rye. “A partial revision of the south-western Australian species of Micromyrtus (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)”. Nuytsia 16 (2006), pp. 117-147.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Barrett_200911S. 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.
Collette_202111J. 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.
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.