AusTraits

Syncarpia glomulifera subsp. glomulifera

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Syncarpia glomulifera (Sm.) Nied. subsp. glomulifera

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Metrosideros glomulifera Sm. var. glomulifera (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Syncarpia laurifolia Ten. var. laurifolia (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (1), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (9), Portelli_2023 (38), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 81 records in 10 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_dry_mass (numerical): 56.04 mg (45.86-85.46 mg) [sources: Portelli_2023]
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1853.5 mm2 (966.67-2842.67 mm2) [sources: Portelli_2023]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 90 mm (70-110 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 345.82 mg (188.73-584.47 mg) [sources: Portelli_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.1 cm (0.07-0.13 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 185.13 g/m2 (158.11-198.66 g/m2) [sources: Portelli_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); bud-bearing_root (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.18 mg (0.18-5 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Portelli_2023]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.59 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.62 mg/mm3) [sources: Portelli_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Portelli_20231138A. M. Portelli, S. M. Windecker, L. J. Pollock, W. C. Neal, W. K. Morris, R. Khot, and P. A. Vesk. “From mallees to mountain ash, specific leaf area is coordinated with eucalypt tree stature, resprouting, stem construction, and fruit size”. Australian Journal of Botany 71.8 (2023). Ed. by D. Williams, pp. 506-522. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23028.
NHNSW_20231218N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_201489B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Clarke_201511P. 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.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.