Verticordia plumosa
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Family Myrtaceae
Taxonomy: Verticordia plumosa (Desf.) Druce
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Chamaelaucium plumosum Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
- Chamelaucium plumosum Desf. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Diplachne baueri Desf. (taxonomic synonym)
- Verticordia fontainesii F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
- Verticordia fontanesii DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): WA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Barrett_2009 (8), Collette_2021 (1), Shedley_2007 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (7), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 41 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 (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
- post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (2) [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): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.3-0.5 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 (7) [sources: Barrett_2009; Shedley_2007; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): dense (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnyyyyyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
- seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (2) [sources: Barrett_2009]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1.18 m (0.2-1.5 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Barrett_2009 | 4 | 8 | 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. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 7 | 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. |
| 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_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. |
| Shedley_2007 | 1 | 1 | E. F. Shedley. Fire and Biodiversity Guidelines for the Avon Basin: Consultant Report to the Avon Catchment Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation, August 2007. Tech. rep. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, 2007. |
| 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. |