Homoranthus melanostictus

Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Myrtales/Myrtaceae/Homoranthus

At a glance

Occurrence records146

Data sources5

Biological traits19

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Homoranthus melanostictus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility146 records↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page4 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources19 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS2 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF146 records

01Narrative

Habit Homoranthus melanostictus is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It has cylinder-shaped to flattened leaves with blackish oil dots and up to six yellow flowers arranged in leaf axils near the ends of the branchlets.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsGIFT

Size & morphology4

Leaf length5.25 mm

Leaf width0.55 mm

Plant height0.1 m

Plant height max0.1 m

Life cycle & reproduction6

Flowering endNov

Flowering startJul

Life formshrub

Life spanperennial

Raunkiær life formphanerophyte

Sex typehermaphrodite

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment8

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatesubtropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formshrub

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Leaf shapeterete

Woodinesswoody

03Chemical composition2 compounds

Compounds documented for Homoranthus melanostictus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile2 classes

Cinnamic acids and derivatives1

Wax monoesters1

Documented compounds2 total

Compound	Class	Amount	Source
1-Methoxy-4-(2-propenyl)benzene		present	LOTUS
Hex-trans-3-enyl butyrate		present	LOTUS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type146 records

Wild obs. + sensor12

Museum / vouchered124

Other10

Origin

Native18

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO280 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy64% within 1 km

≤100 m 6≤1 km 1≤10 km 2>10 km 2

11 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor12

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy64% within 1 km

≤100 m 48≤1 km 17≤10 km 15>10 km 22

102 georeferenced · 22 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence124

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions8 of 9 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Brisbane, AU	54
Canberra, AU	20
Mount Annan, AU	18
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record	13
Armidale, AU	7
Adelaide, AU	4
Kew, GB	3
Palmerston, AU	2
Hobart, AU	1

9 institutions · 122 of 124 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code