AusTraits

Tetratheca gunnii

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Tetratheca gunnii Hook.f.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Tetratheca pilosa var. calva Rodway (pro parte taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Jordan_2001 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), McGlone_2015 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), TMAG_2009 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 29 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.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (2-6 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.75 mm (0.5-2.5 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.84 mg (2.84-2.84 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
TMAG_2009911Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
McGlone_201566M. 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.
Jordan_200144G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.