Alyxia tropica

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Family Apocynaceae

Taxonomy: Alyxia tropica (P.I.Forst.) D.J.Middleton

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Alyxia ruscifolia subsp. tropica P.I.Forst. (basionym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (5), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (17), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 44 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.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1); mericarp (1) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 65 mm (65-65 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 27 mm (27-27 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); obovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (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]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	14	17	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/.
ABRS_2023	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
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.
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.
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.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.