Tristania neriifolia

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Tristania neriifolia (Sims) R.Br.

Synonyms: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Melaleuca neriifolia Sims (nomenclatural synonym)
Melaleuca salicifolia Andrews (taxonomic synonym)
Tristania nereifolia R.Br. (orthographic variant)
Tristania persicaefolia A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
Tristania persicifolia A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)
Tristania salicifolia Steud. (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
Tristania salicina A.Cunn. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (1), Hughes_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kubiak_2009 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (20), NSWFRD_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 65 records in 12 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): resprouts (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 55 mm (35-75 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.2-0.7 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; 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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1); hydrochory (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
dispersers (categorical): water (1); wind (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (3) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.06 mg (0.06-0.06 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	14	20	N. 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/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	17	17	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NSWFRD_2014	7	8	B. 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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
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.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Clarke_2015	1	1	P. 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_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kubiak_2009	1	1	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.