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Amyema sanguinea

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Family Loranthaceae

Taxonomy: Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Amyema sanguineum Barlow (orthographic variant)
  • Loranthus celastroides var. longicarpeus Domin (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Loranthus sanguineus F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pilostigma sanguineum (F.Muell.) Tiegh. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), Brock_1993 (9), Chen_2017 (4), Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2023 (12), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 28 traits from 83 records in 17 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.33 mm (8-18 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 133.12 mm (50-250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (8-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (2); narrowly_oblong (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); ovate (1); widely_elliptical (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Lord_1997; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • parasitic (categorical): hemiparasitic (1); parasitic (2); stem_parasitic (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2014; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1); insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (2) [sources: Draper_2023; Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (2); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Crowley_2007]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 52.96 mg (52.96-52.96 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023812Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023812D. 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/.
SAH_2023812S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Brock_199379J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, 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.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
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.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.