Abrophyllum ornans

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Family Rousseaceae

Taxonomy: Abrophyllum ornans (F.Muell.) Hook.f. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Brachynema ornans F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (13), Draper_2023 (3), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Hughes_1992 (5), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lawson_2015 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (20), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_2021 (43), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (49). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 68 traits from 180 records in 20 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 141.25 mm (45-220 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 51.25 mm (15-80 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (2-4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (8) [sources: ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3) [sources: Butler_2004; Draper_2023; Hughes_1992]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1); vertebrates (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Draper_2023]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); ynnnnnnnnnyy (1); ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.05 mg (0.05-0.06 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 0.5 mm (0.5-0.5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 0.75 mm (0.5-1 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.67 mg/mm3) [sources: Lawson_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8 m (8-8 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	31	49	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
eFLOWER_2021	28	43	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
NHNSW_2023	15	20	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	11	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Hughes_1992	5	5	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Wright_2000	5	5	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Draper_2023	3	3	J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Grubb_1996	2	2	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Lawson_2015	1	2	J. R. Lawson, K. A. Fryirs, and M. R. Leishman. “Data from: Hydrological conditions explain wood density in riparian plants of south-eastern Australia”. Dryad Digital Repository (2015). doi: 10.5061/dryad.72h45.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_2019	1	1	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.