Verticordia plumosa var. brachyphylla
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Verticordia plumosa var. brachyphylla (Diels) A.S.George
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Verticordia fontanesii var. brachyphylla Diels (nomenclatural synonym)
- Verticordia plumosa var. brevifolia (F.Muell.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
- Verticordia plumosa var. pleiobotrya A.S.George (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cochrane_2001 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tsakalos_2020 (16), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 37 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: Cochrane_2001]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Tsakalos_2020]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1); erect (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
- root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.2-1.2 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
- plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tsakalos_2020 | 15 | 16 | J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 8 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.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. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Cochrane_2001 | 2 | 2 | A. Cochrane, K. Brown, S. Cunneen, and and A. Kelly. “Variation in seed production and germination in 22 rare and threatened Western Australian Verticordia (Myrtaceae)”. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 84 (2001), pp. 103-110. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |