Muiriantha hassellii

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Muiriantha hassellii (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Chorilaena hassellii F.Muell. (basionym)
Muiria hassellii (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (10), Barrett_2009 (5), Collette_2021 (1), Pickup_2021 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_1 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_1 (9), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (29). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 51 traits from 75 records in 14 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): fire_killed (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 13.75 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: WAH_2023_1]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_1]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); subshrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Pickup_2021; WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_1; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2 a (2-2 a) [sources: Barrett_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009; Pickup_2021]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: Pickup_2021]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.26 m (0.15-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	25	29	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	9	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2023_1	7	9	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_2009	5	5	S. 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.
Pickup_2021	5	5	M. Pickup and T. McDonald. Bushfire impacts — A national model for assessing local landscape restoration priorities. Project Phoenix Report. Greening Australia, 2021. url: https://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1.02R2.pdf.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_1	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	A. 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_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.