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Montitega dealbata

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Family Ericaceae

Taxonomy: Montitega dealbata (R.Br.) C.M.Weiller

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyathodes dealbata R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cyathodes pumila Hook.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Styphelia dealbata (R.Br.) Spreng. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (7), McGlone_2015 (7), Mokany_2015 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 34 records in 6 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); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3.14 mm2 (3.14-3.14 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1.5-1.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 3.75 mm (3.75-3.75 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Jordan_2001]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; Mokany_2015]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
eFLOWER_Dun_20221215L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Jordan_200177G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
McGlone_201577M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Mokany_201522K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.