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Micromyrtus navicularis

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Micromyrtus navicularis Rye

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Micromyrtus racemosa var. carinata J.W.Green (taxonomic synonym)
  • Micromyrtus triptycha subsp. carinata Rye (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (3), Rye_2006 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 28 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3-4.5 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.5-0.7 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.55 mm (1.4-1.7 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.65 mm (0.6-0.7 mm) [sources: Rye_2006]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.32 m (0.5-1.6 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/.
Barrett_200933S. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.