Amylotheca dictyophleba

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Family Loranthaceae

Taxonomy: Amylotheca dictyophleba (F.Muell.) Tiegh.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Aciella dictyophleba (F.Muell.) Tiegh. (nomenclatural synonym)
Elytranthe dictyophleba (F.Muell.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
Loranthus beauverdiana F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Loranthus beauverdianus F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Loranthus dictyophlebus F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Loranthus tenuifolius F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (18), ATRP_2020 (2), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (12), Metcalfe_2009 (13), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (6), NHNSW_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 58 traits from 113 records in 14 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 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 9 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 9.25 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): purple (2); red (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 5040 mm2 (5040-5040 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (60-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 40 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.5 cm (0.2-0.8 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Metcalfe_2009; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1); terrestrial (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
parasitic (categorical): stem_parasitic (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bird (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1); yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 36 mg (36-36 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	20	24	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_2023	12	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	11	17	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Metcalfe_2009	13	13	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2022	6	6	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	5	5	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	4	4	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.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.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.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. 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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.