Alyxia ilicifolia
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Family Apocynaceae
Taxonomy: Alyxia ilicifolia F.Muell.
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Alyxia ilicifolia F.Muell. subsp. ilicifolia (nomenclatural synonym)
- Gynopogon ilicifolius (F.Muell.) K.Schum. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Pulassarium ilicifolium (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (7), ABRS_2023 (14), Cooper_2013 (11), Forster_1992 (10), Grubb_1996 (3), Kooyman_2011 (11), McCarthy_2017 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 75 records in 10 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): 17 mm (11-23 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Forster_1992]
- fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (6-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Forster_1992]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_area (numerical): 60.08 mm2 (37.89-85.89 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_length (numerical): 113.33 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Forster_1992; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 45.83 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Forster_1992; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 256.89 g/m2 (240.98-267.25 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); oblong (2); obovate (2); obtriangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Forster_1992]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_margin_posture (categorical): flat (1); undulate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Forster_1992; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 100 mg (100-100 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
- seed_length (numerical): 13 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
- wood_density (numerical): 0.7 mg/mm3 (0.68-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Forster_1992]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| McCarthy_2017 | 3 | 12 | J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221. |
| Cooper_2013 | 9 | 11 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| Kooyman_2011 | 8 | 11 | 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. |
| Forster_1992 | 8 | 10 | P. I. Forster. “A taxonomic revision of Alyxia (Apocynaceae) in Australia”. Australian Systematic Botany 5 (1992), pp. 547-580. doi: 10.1071/sb9920547. |
| ABRS_2022 | 4 | 7 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| 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_1996 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |