Myoporum tetrandrum

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Taxonomy: Myoporum tetrandrum (Labill.) Domin

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Myoporum serratum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Myoporum serratum R.Br. var. serratum (nomenclatural synonym)
Myoporum serratum var. tuberculatum (R.Br.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Myoporum tetrandrum (Labill.) Domin var. tetrandrum (nomenclatural synonym)
Myoporum tetrandrum var. tuberculatum (R.Br.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Myoporum tuberculatum R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Pogonia tetrandra Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (4), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Chinnock_2007 (15), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 52 records in 13 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 (3) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 33 mo (33-33 mo) [sources: Burrows_2020]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 56.75 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 10.75 mm (3-25 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Chinnock_2007; Wheeler_2002]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Barrett_2009; Chinnock_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2.75 a (2.75-2.75 a) [sources: Burrows_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Burrows_2008_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
seed_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.9-1 mm) [sources: Chinnock_2007]
seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: Chinnock_2007]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.58 m (0.5-3 m) [sources: Chinnock_2007; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Chinnock_2007	10	15	R. J. Chinnock. Eremophila and allied genera: A monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg, 2007. ISBN: 9781877058165.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Barrett_2009	4	4	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.
Burrows_2008_2	4	4	N. D. Burrows, G. Wardell-Johnson, and B. Ward. “Post-fire juvenile period of plants in south-west Australia forests and implications for fire management”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 91 (2008), pp. 163-174. ISSN: 0035922X. url: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19156 (visited on 03/27/2025).
Burrows_2020	4	4	N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	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_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
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.
Sweedman_2006	1	1	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.