AusTraits

Alphitonia whitei

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Family Rhamnaceae

Taxonomy: Alphitonia whitei Braid

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alphitonia excelsa var. franguloides (A.Gray) F.M.Bailey (misapplied)
  • Alphitonia franguloides A.Gray (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (26), Bloomfield_2018 (225), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (2), Ilic_2000 (2), Kanowski_2000 (178), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Rumman_2018 (4), Sams_2017 (7), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Tng_2013 (6), Togashi_2015 (1), Wells_2012 (177), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (45), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 93 traits from 716 records in 20 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (7-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.25 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2); drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (4); indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 8336.06 mm2 (4062.55-15000 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Tng_2013; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 160 mm (70-230 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 66.25 mm (35-97 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 831.92 mg (175.1-1627 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1.5-2.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 127.2 g/m2 (42.38-183.49 g/m2) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Kanowski_2000; Sams_2017; Tng_2013; Wells_2012; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.46 g/g (0.34-0.56 g/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: Rumman_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1); spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Rumman_2018; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 17.72 mg/g (10.87-22.44 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.9 mg/g (0.49-1.77 mg/g) [sources: Bloomfield_2018; Kanowski_2000; Wills_2018]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -31.77 {delta}[ppth] (-32.02--31.52 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Rumman_2018; Tng_2013]
physiology
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 62 mg (28-96 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.42 mm (4.2-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.58 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.66 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Sams_2017; Tng_2013; Wells_2012]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Togashi_2015]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 25.83 m (10-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Bloomfield_201824225K. J. Bloomfield, L. A. Cernusak, D. Eamus, D. S. Ellsworth, I. C. Prentice, I. J. Wright, M. M. Boer, M. G. Bradford, P. Cale, J. Cleverly, J. J. G. Egerton, B. J. Evans, L. S. Hayes, M. F. Hutchinson, M. J. Liddell, C. Macfarlane, W. S. Meyer, S. M. Prober, H. F. Togashi, T. Wardlaw, L. Zhu, and O. K. Atkin. “A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons”. Functional Ecology 32.6 (2018), pp. 1492-1506. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13097.
Kanowski_200024178J. 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.
Wells_201223177J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Wills_20181545J. 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.
ABRS_20231826Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_201777M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Tng_201366D. 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.
Gross_200544C. 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.
Rumman_201844R. Rumman, O. K. Atkin, K. J. Bloomfield, and D. Eamus. “Variation in bulk-leaf 13C discrimination, leaf traits and wateruse efficiency-trait relationships along a continental-scale climate gradient in Australia”. Global Change Biology 24 (2018), pp. 1186-1200. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13911.
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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Grubb_199622P. 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.
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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Togashi_201511H. F. Togashi, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, D. I. Forrester, P. Drake, P. Feikema, K. Brooksbank, D. Eamus, and D. Taylor. “Morphological and moisture availability controls of the leaf area-to-sapwood area ratio: analysis of measurements on Australian trees”. Ecology and Evolution 5.6 (2015), pp. 1263-1270. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1344.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.