AusTraits

Thryptomene repens

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Thryptomene repens Rye & Trudgen

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Thryptomene sp. Steep Point (M.E.Trudgen 7421) WA Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Sjostrom_2006 (4), Trudgen_2014 (8), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 19 records in 5 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 2.75 mm (2.5-3 mm) [sources: Trudgen_2014]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 0.95 mm (0.6-1.3 mm) [sources: Trudgen_2014]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Trudgen_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Trudgen_2014; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1); sprawling (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: Trudgen_2014]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: Trudgen_2014]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Trudgen_201468M. E. Trudgen and B. L. Rye. “An update to the taxonomy of some western Australian genera of Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae. 2. Cyathostemon”. Nuytsia 24 (2014), pp. 7-16.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.