AusTraits

Rhodomyrtus trineura

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Rhodomyrtus trineura (F.Muell.) Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Myrtus trineura F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rhodomyrtus trineura (F.Muell.) Benth. var. trineura (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Falster_2005_1 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 37 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.

fire response
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 11.5 mm (10-13 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3401 mm2 (3401-3401 mm2) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 129 g/m2 (129-129 g/m2) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Williams_2012]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.76 mg/mm3 (0.76-0.76 mg/mm3) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6 m (6-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Falster_2005_169D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.x.
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.
Williams_201244P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
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.