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Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) Joy Thomps.

Myrtaceae · Queensland

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) Joy Thomps.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Gaertn.) J.Thomps.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
16.8°C
Record low 10.1 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Jan, Nov and Dec at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,741mm
7 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
27–43DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, December to March (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Neofabricia myrtifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, yellow flowers borne singly in leaf axils with many stamens, and more or less cup-shaped fruits.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Neofabricia myrtifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,302 mm of 1,686 mm) falls in December to March. The temperature curve is flat, 3.8 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

1,686 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,302 mm of it December to March. Wettest month January at 377 mm, driest month September at 7 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,456 mm to 1,963 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,741 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,686 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: 27 to 43 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 26, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 16.8 °C, the absolute minimum 10.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.4 °C in July and August (across the grid cells of the range 19.2 °C to 23.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 30.0 °C in December (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 16.8 °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: 61 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 +18 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 Neofabricia myrtifolia through the yearWarmest months January, November and December, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest months July and August, mean nightly low 21.4 °C; 1,686 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.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°36.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER10.1° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 27–43RH 61–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 139 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 °C30 / 28–3129 / 28–3029 / 28–3028 / 27–3027 / 26–2926 / 25–2825 / 24–2826 / 24–2827 / 25–3028 / 26–3230 / 27–3330 / 28–32
Night °C25 / 24–2625 / 23–2625 / 23–2624 / 23–2623 / 22–2522 / 20–2521 / 19–2421 / 19–2422 / 21–2423 / 22–2524 / 23–2625 / 24–26
Rain mm377 / 316–432374 / 316–463353 / 276–393174 / 98–24559 / 26–8823 / 9–4816 / 6–3712 / 6–257 / 4–1321 / 15–2872 / 62–94198 / 172–249
DLI35 / 33–3833 / 31–3633 / 32–3533 / 32–3430 / 28–3227 / 26–3028 / 27–3132 / 31–3539 / 38–4143 / 42–4543 / 42–4439 / 38–41
RH %66 / 65–6867 / 66–7066 / 65–6965 / 63–6763 / 61–6663 / 60–6562 / 60–6461 / 59–6461 / 59–6461 / 58–6462 / 59–6564 / 62–66
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 139 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (289 records in those cells; 6 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), 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 2034:6452 (-11.725, 142.625). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 10.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 16.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.5 °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 139 distinct grid cells holding 289 of the 301 in-range records (6 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2034:6452 (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 -11.50_142.500, lapse-corrected +18 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 102 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.
NativeQueensland · 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-11.953, 142.665 · in the densest population, 252 records (71% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 357 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 289 of them in the land cells it reads, of 301 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 335 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 56 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 11265793 (Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) JoyThomps.): Kew's file holds it as Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) 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 357 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) Matt B, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Hugo Innes, some rights reserved (CC BY).

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

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Names & registers

Also known as Fabricia myrtifolia; Leptospermum fabricia. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
(Gaertn.) Joy Thomps.
Native to
Queensland
Wild records
357 in range · 335 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 3175331 is Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) J.Thomps.; the page links Kew's Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) Joy Thomps., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 11265793, Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) JoyThomps. (Kew's file holds it as Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) Joy Thomps. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (9 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 -11.50_142.500, lapse-corrected +18 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 2026-10-22
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 18 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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