Sannantha virgata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy:

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC):

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (2), Cooper_2013 (13), McGlone_2015 (6), White_2020 (36), Wright_2000 (6), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (6). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 41 traits from 69 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (6.5-6.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: McGlone_2015]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015; White_2020]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); wind (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnnnnn (1); yyyynnnnnnyy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 7.5 m (4-11 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; McGlone_2015]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	18	36	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
Cooper_2013	11	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
McGlone_2015	6	6	M. 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.
Wright_2000	6	6	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	3	6	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Clarke_2015	2	2	P. 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.