AusTraits

Rhodomyrtus trineura subsp. capensis

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Rhodomyrtus trineura subsp. capensis Guymer

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Austromyrtus sp. 'McIlwraith Range' (B.Hyland 7645) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sams_2017 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 33 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (50-135 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 27.5 mm (15-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 117.91 g/m2 (117.91-117.91 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.74 mg/mm3 (0.74-0.74 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Sams_201789M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
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.