Allosyncarpia ternata

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Allosyncarpia ternata S.T.Blake

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Brock_1993 (10), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (12), Nano_2011 (4), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (24), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (11). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 79 records in 12 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 118.75 mm (75-135 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 24.5 mm (12-40 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.1 g/g (0.09-0.12 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; Schmidt_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
root_structure (categorical): ectomycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 10.98 mg/g (10-12 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.54 {delta}[ppth] (-30.65--28.12 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 32.5 m (30-35 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schmidt_2003	11	24	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Kooyman_2011	9	12	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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	11	11	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Brock_1993	8	10	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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.
Nano_2011	4	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
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.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
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.