AusTraits

Acronychia acronychioides

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Family Rutaceae

Taxonomy: Acronychia acronychioides (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Acronychia melicopoides F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acronychia melicopoides F.Muell. var. melicopoides (taxonomic synonym)
  • Euodia acronychioides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Jambolifera melicopodes Kuntze (orthographic variant)
  • Jambolifera melicopoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Melicope acronychioides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (15), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Ilic_2000 (2), Kanowski_2000 (23), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 52 traits from 91 records in 13 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (8-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5032 mm2 (4424-5640 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 136.25 mm (55-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 43.25 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 5 cm (2-8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 124.86 g/m2 (116.03-133.69 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyyynnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.62 mg/g (17.62-17.62 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.73 mg/g (0.73-0.73 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -33.2 {delta}[ppth] (-33.2--33.2 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5.5 mg (5.5-5.5 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.54 mg/mm3 (0.51-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 25 m (25-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kanowski_20002323J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
ABRS_20231115Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Tng_201366D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Gross_200544C. 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_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Grubb_199622P. 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.
Ilic_200012J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.