Thryptomene saxicola

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Thryptomene saxicola (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Schauer

Synonyms: 8 (APC 2026-07-30)

Astraea saxicola (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Schauer (nomenclatural synonym)
Baeckea saxicola A.Cunn. ex G.Don (nomenclatural synonym)
Baeckea saxicola A.Cunn. ex Hook. (nomenclatural synonym)
Baeckea saxicola A.Cunn. ex Otto & A.Dietr. (nomenclatural synonym)
Bucheria saxicola (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Heynh. (nomenclatural synonym)
Gomphotis saxicola (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Raf. (nomenclatural synonym)
Paryphantha camphorata F.Muell. ex Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Scholtzia decandra F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Eremopyxis camphorata (R.Br. ex Sims) Baill. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (14), Collette_2021 (1), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 44 records in 11 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): fire_killed (1); partial_resprouting (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-6 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 1.6 mm (0.7-2.5 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6) [sources: Barrett_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank (3) [sources: Barrett_2009]
seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.39 mg (1.39-1.39 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.45 m (0.3-2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Barrett_2009	5	14	S. 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.
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. 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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
Sweedman_2006	2	4	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_2021	1	1	J. 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.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.