Alphitonia oblata

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Family Rhamnaceae

Taxonomy: Alphitonia oblata A.R.Bean

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alphitonia sp. (=RFK/25117) (taxonomic synonym)
Alphitonia sp. (Kimberley BH 25117RFK) (taxonomic synonym)
Alphitonia sp. Kimberley B.Hyland (25117RFK) (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 7 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alphitonia excelsa (A.Cunn. ex Fenzl) Benth. (misapplied)
Alphitonia incana (Roxb.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Kurz (misapplied)
Alphitonia moluccana Teijsm. & Binn. ex Braid (misapplied)
Alphitonia moluccana Teijsm. & Binn. ex Braid (pro parte misapplied)
Alphitonia obtusifolia R.Br. ex Braid (misapplied)
Alphitonia philippinensis Braid (misapplied)
Alphitonia philippinensis Braid (pro parte misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (25), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (8), Grubb_1996 (2), Kooyman_2011 (25), Metcalfe_2009 (20), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 117 records in 16 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 (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (4) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (8-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 14.5 mm (13-17 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 14 mm (13-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); drupe (3); follicle (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4); indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 7560 mm2 (7560-7560 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 139.67 mm (60-210 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 47.17 mm (25-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.4 cm (1-1.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); narrowly_ovate (1); oblanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1); short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; RussellSmith_2012]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 28 mg (18-38 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 3.83 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.55 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.57 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 16.12 m (2-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	17	25	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	9	25	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.
Metcalfe_2009	20	20	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Gross_2005	4	8	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.
Sjostrom_2006	4	8	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.
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.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Grubb_1996	2	2	P. 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.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.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.
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.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.