Alpinia modesta

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Family Zingiberaceae

Taxonomy: Alpinia modesta F.Muell. ex K.Schum.

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (14), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (14), Grubb_1996 (2), Grubb_2008 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (56), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 104 records in 11 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12.33 mm (9-15 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3); indehiscent (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1701.5 mm2 (883.3-2519.69 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaflet_area (numerical): 1212.53 mm2 (995.98-1429.07 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 51.78 mg (20.79-82.78 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 32.85 g/m2 (23.54-40 g/m2) [sources: Grubb_2008; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.19 g/g (0.19-0.21 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 3.2 g/g (3.2-3.2 g/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 20.6 mg/g (20.6-20.6 mg/g) [sources: Grubb_2008]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 15 mg (15-15 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.22 mg/mm3 (0.19-0.31 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	25	56	J. 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.
ABRS_2023	10	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, 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.
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.
Grubb_2008	3	3	P. J. Grubb, R. V. Jackson, I. M. Barberis, J. N. Bee, D. A. Coomes, N. J. Dominy, M. A. S. D. L. Fuente, P. W. Lucas, D. J. Metcalfe, J. Svenning, I. M. Turner, and O. Vargas. “Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: Correlations with toughness and leaf presentation”. Annals of Botany 101 (2008), pp. 1379-1389. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcn047.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.