AusTraits

Alangium villosum subsp. polyosmoides

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Family Cornaceae

Taxonomy: Alangium villosum subsp. polyosmoides (F.Muell.) Bloemb.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Pseudalangium polyosmoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rhytidandra polyosmoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alangium vitiense (A.Gray) Baill. ex Harms (misapplied)
  • Marlea vitiensis (A.Gray) Benth. (misapplied)
  • Stylidium vitiense (A.Gray) F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), Butler_2004 (5), Cooper_2013 (15), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), Sams_2017 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (117), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 49 traits from 207 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): 14.5 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2948.49 mm2 (1419.65-4901.01 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 117.5 mm (35-200 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 115.91 mg (46.12-190.2 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 45.41 g/m2 (32.48-67.91 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.27 g/g (0.24-0.33 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); oblong (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wells_2012; 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (10-17 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.5 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.61 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017; Wells_2012; Westoby_2004]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201222117J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
NHNSW_20231419N. 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_20131215W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_20111013R. 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.
Westoby_2004413M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
Sams_201789M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Butler_200455D. 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.
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.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
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.