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Alectryon oleifolius

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Alectryon oleifolius (Desf.) S.T.Reynolds

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Heterodendrum oleaefolium Desf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Heterodendrum oleifolium Desf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Nephelium oleifolium (Desf.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (18), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (11), Dong_2017 (8), Draper_2023 (3), Fonseca_2000 (22), Ilic_2000 (2), Jurado_1991 (5), Kooyman_2011 (13), Leishman_1992 (7), McGlone_2015 (6), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (17), RBGV_2022 (1), RBGV_2023 (5), SAH_2023 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Soliveres_2012 (3), Stewart_1995 (8), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 65 traits from 186 records in 31 datasets.

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

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (8-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 378.46 mm2 (176.1-563.9 mm2) [sources: Fonseca_2000; Jurado_1991; Leishman_1992]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 95.62 mm (30-180 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 9.52 mm (3-23 mm) [sources: Fonseca_2000; McGlone_2015; ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 70.2 mg (31-128 mg) [sources: Fonseca_2000]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.9 cm (0.5-1.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 230.19 g/m2 (163.93-280.36 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Fonseca_2000]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Stewart_1995]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); attenuate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Stewart_1995; White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (13) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Fonseca_2000; Jurado_1991; Kooyman_2011; Leishman_1992; McGlone_2015; NHNSW_2022; Soliveres_2012; Stewart_1995; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Leishman_1992; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Stewart_1995]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (3) [sources: Dong_2017; Stewart_1995; White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: Draper_2023; White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); myrmecochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Soliveres_2012; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): ants (1); invertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Soliveres_2012; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (1); yyynnnnnnnny (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • storage_organ (categorical): no_storage_organ (1) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 18.04 mg/g (18.04-18.04 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -27.3 {delta}[ppth] (-27.91--26.5 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Stewart_1995]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 40.5 mg (40.5-40.5 mg) [sources: Leishman_1992]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 6 mm (5-7 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.96 mg/mm3 (0.94-0.98 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Fonseca_2000522C. R. Fonseca, J. M. Overton, B. Collins, and M. Westoby. “Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients”. Journal of Ecology 88 (2000), pp. 964-977. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00506.x.
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231318Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231317N. 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/.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Dong_201788N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Stewart_199568G. Stewart, M. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P. Erskine. “13C natural abundance in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water availability”. Functional Plant Biology 22.1 (1995), pp. 51-55. doi: 10.1071/pp9950051.
Leishman_199277M. R. Leishman and M. Westoby. “Classifying plants into groups on the basis of associations of individual traits-Evidence from Australian semi-arid woodlands”. Journal of Ecology 80 (1992), pp. 417-424. doi: 10.2307/2260687.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
Jurado_199155E. Jurado. “Diaspore weight, dispersal, growth form and perenniality of central Australian plants”. Journal of Ecology 79 (1991), pp. 811-828.
RBGV_202355VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_202334S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
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.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Draper_202333J. 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_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/.
Soliveres_201233S. Soliveres, D. J. Eldridge, F. Hemmings, and F. T. Maestre. “Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity”. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 14 (2012), pp. 402-410. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_202211VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.