AusTraits

Micromyrtus prochytes

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Micromyrtus prochytes Rye

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Micromyrtus racemosa var. prochytes J.W.Green ex Rye (taxonomic synonym)
  • Micromyrtus racemosa var. prochytes Paczk. & A.R.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Rye_2009_2 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 26 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: Rye_2009_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.8 mm (0.6-1 mm) [sources: Rye_2009_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Rye_2009_2; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Rye_2009_2; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Rye_2009_2]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: Rye_2009_2]
  • seed_width (numerical): 0.85 mm (0.8-0.9 mm) [sources: Rye_2009_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 1.2 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: Rye_2009_2; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Rye_2009_2813B. L. Rye. “A revision of the Micromyrtus racemosa complex (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae) of south-western Australia”. Nuytsia 20 (2010), pp. 37-56.
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_233Western 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.
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.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.