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Leptospermum turbinatum Joy Thomps.

Shiny tea-tree

Myrtaceae · Victoria

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Leptospermum turbinatum Joy Thomps.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, J.Thomps.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
0.0°C
Record low -3.0 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
25°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
696mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
11–46DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet winters: the rain comes November to May (May to November at the habitat), read as a winter growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Leptospermum turbinatum, commonly known as shiny tea-tree, is a species of spreading shrub that is endemic to the Grampians and nearby ranges in Victoria, Australia. It has thin, rough bark, elliptical to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, relatively large white flowers and fruit that remains on the plant at maturity.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Leptospermum turbinatum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Leptospermum

Leptospermum is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae commonly known as tea trees, although this name is sometimes also used for some species of Melaleuca. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent, but some are native to other parts of the world, including New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Leptospermums all have five conspicuous petals and five groups of stamens which alternate with the petals. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Leptospermum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (504 mm of 699 mm) falls in May to November, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 9.4 °C against a yearly mean of 12.2 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: November to May.

Rain

699 mm in the median year at the habitat, 504 mm of it May to November. Wettest month August at 92 mm, driest month February at 33 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 610 mm to 801 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 696 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 699 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 11 to 46 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 11, the highest 90th-percentile month 48).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 0.0 °C, the absolute minimum -3.0 °C, 171 frost nights in 44 years, 3.9 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.3 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 3.7 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 2.3 °C to 4.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 24.9 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +47 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Leptospermum turbinatum through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 25 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 3.7 °C; 699 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost38.3° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-3.0° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125mm rainDLI 11–46RH 54–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 63 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C25 / 23–2625 / 24–2622 / 21–2318 / 17–1914 / 13–1511 / 10–1210 / 9–1111 / 10–1214 / 13–1516 / 15–1720 / 18–2122 / 21–23
Night °C12 / 11–1312 / 11–1411 / 10–129 / 7–97 / 5–85 / 3–64 / 2–54 / 3–55 / 4–67 / 5–79 / 8–1010 / 9–11
Rain mm34 / 27–4033 / 28–3836 / 29–4143 / 35–4962 / 54–7581 / 68–9881 / 70–9792 / 78–10774 / 64–8462 / 50–6952 / 43–5949 / 42–54
DLI46 / 45–4842 / 41–4432 / 31–3322 / 21–2314 / 14–1511 / 11–1213 / 12–1318 / 17–1825 / 24–2634 / 33–3541 / 40–4245 / 44–46
RH %54 / 52–5554 / 53–5556 / 55–5759 / 57–6064 / 62–6567 / 65–6967 / 65–6964 / 62–6662 / 60–6359 / 57–6057 / 55–5855 / 54–57
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 63 grid cells holding the 264 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2538:6448 (-36.925, 142.425). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -3.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 63 distinct grid cells holding 264 of the 264 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2538:6448 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -37.00_142.500, lapse-corrected +47 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 306 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVictoria · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-37.217, 142.467 · in the densest population, 270 records (99% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 273 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 264 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 201 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 11347717 (Leptospermum turbinatum JoyThomps.): Kew's file holds it as Leptospermum turbinatum Joy Thomps. (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 273 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) grampianshiker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Jenny O'Connell, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Eucalyptus serraensis Eucalyptus serraensis Grampians Stringybark Photo: CC0, author not statedGrevillea confertifolia Grevillea confertifolia Grampians Grevillea Photo: CC BY, grampianshikerBauera sessiliflora Bauera sessiliflora Grampians Bauera Photo: CC BY, grampianshikerGrevillea dimorpha Grevillea dimorpha Flame grevillea Photo: CC BY, grampianshikerMicroseris scapigera Microseris scapigera Yam daisy Photo: CC BY, Joe DillonEucalyptus aromaphloia Eucalyptus aromaphloia Creswick Apple-box Photo: CC BY, ttsquid

Other Leptospermum 21 in the reference

Leptospermum continentale Leptospermum continentale Prickly tea-tree Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyLeptospermum grandiflorum Leptospermum grandiflorum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Stella FishLeptospermum grandifolium Leptospermum grandifolium Tea Tree Bairne Photo: CC BY, Petra HollandLeptospermum juniperinum Leptospermum juniperinum Prickly teatree Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerLeptospermum laevigatum Leptospermum laevigatum Australian teatree Photo: CC BY-SA, Jack KlemLeptospermum lanigerum Leptospermum lanigerum Woolly Tea-tree Photo: CC BY, Stella FishLeptospermum liversidgei Leptospermum liversidgei Lemon-scented Tea-tree Photo: CC0, author not statedLeptospermum macrocarpum Leptospermum macrocarpum Large-fruited tea tree Photo: CC BY, T. HammerLeptospermum morrisonii Leptospermum morrisonii Large-leaf yellow teatree Photo: CC BY, Guy TaseskiLeptospermum myrtifolium Leptospermum myrtifolium Myrtle Teatree Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony EalesLeptospermum nitidum Leptospermum nitidum Shining Tea-tree Photo: CC0, author not statedLeptospermum obovatum Leptospermum obovatum River teatree Photo: CC BY, Shelomi Doyle all 22 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
Joy Thomps.
Native to
Victoria
Wild records
273 in range · 201 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 3181912 is Leptospermum turbinatum J.Thomps.; Kew accepts Leptospermum turbinatum Joy Thomps., and the name is cited as Kew accepts it; its synonyms and common names are read from GBIF's Leptospermum turbinatum JoyThomps. (11347717) too
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-220 read from GBIF's Leptospermum turbinatum JoyThomps. (11347717)
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 11347717, Leptospermum turbinatum JoyThomps. (Kew's file holds it as Leptospermum turbinatum Joy Thomps. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -37.00_142.500, lapse-corrected +47 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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