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Taxandria marginata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Taxandria marginata (Labill.) J.R.Wheeler & N.G.Marchant

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Agonis marginata (Labill.) Schauer (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Agonis marginata (Labill.) Sweet (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billotia marginata G.Don (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billotia marginata glabrata G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Billottia marginata (Labill.) G.Don (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billottia marginata (Labill.) G.Don var. marginata (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billottia marginata (Labill.) R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billottia marginata var. glabrata (DC.) G.Don (taxonomic synonym)
  • Leptospermum marginatum Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptospermum marginatum Labill. var. marginatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Leptospermum marginatum var. glabratum DC. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (19), Burrows_2008_2 (4), Burrows_2020 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (19), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 77 records in 15 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
fruit morphology
  • fruit_width (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 3 mm (2.5-3.5 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7) [sources: Barrett_2009; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); erect (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (4) [sources: Barrett_2009]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; Burrows_2008_2; Burrows_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.41 mg (0.38-0.44 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.33 m (2-3 m) [sources: RBGV_2023; WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Barrett_2009519S. 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.
RBGV_20231419VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wheeler_2002810J. 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.
Burrows_2008_244N. 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_202044N. Burrows. Data from 'Plant Ecological Attributes' theme, NatureMap, DBCA, WA. 2020.
RBGV_202244VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. 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.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.