Alphitonia pomaderroides
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Family Rhamnaceae
Taxonomy: Alphitonia pomaderroides (Fenzl) A.R.Bean
Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Alphitonia obtusifolia R.Br. ex Braid (taxonomic synonym)
- Alphitonia obtusifolia R.Br. ex Braid var. obtusifolia (taxonomic synonym)
- Alphitonia obtusifolia var. tenuis Braid (taxonomic synonym)
- Ziziphus pomaderroides Fenzl (nomenclatural synonym)
- Zizyphus pomaderroides Fenzl (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (24), Kew_2019_1 (1), NTH_2022 (3), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (1), Stephens_2021 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 40 records in 9 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 (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 10.25 mm (9.5-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 11 mm (10-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 105.5 mm (56-155 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 56 mm (32-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 1.4 cm (0.7-2.1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynyyynynnnyn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 40.35 mg (40.35-40.35 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 5.85 mm (5.4-6.3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 7 m (7-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRS_2023 | 17 | 24 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 1 | 1 | 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. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 1 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |