Alangium villosum

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Family Cornaceae

Taxonomy: Alangium villosum (Blume) Wangerin

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Styrax villosus Blume (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), Chen_2017 (6), Ilic_2000 (2), Kanowski_2000 (23), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), RadfordSmith_2024 (40), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (30), Wright_2000 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 76 traits from 162 records in 14 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 17 mm (12-20 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 8.75 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 2582.86 mm2 (1682.78-3464.46 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; RadfordSmith_2024; Tng_2013]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 191.96 mg (112.22-245.52 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 73.09 g/m2 (62.06-91.16 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; RadfordSmith_2024; Tng_2013; Wills_2018]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.38 g/g (0.32-0.41 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
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_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; 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): tree (2) [sources: 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: RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 33.43 mg/g (30.94-34.39 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 2.65 mg/g (2.01-3.51 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -33.39 {delta}[ppth] (-33.39--33.39 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.6 mg/mm3 (0.54-0.7 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; RadfordSmith_2024; Tng_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	15	40	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
Wills_2018	15	30	J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	18	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Kanowski_2000	23	23	J. 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.
NHNSW_2023	14	19	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/.
Chen_2017	6	6	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Tng_2013	6	6	D. 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.
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.
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/.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. 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_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	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.