AusTraits

Annona squamosa

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Family Annonaceae

Taxonomy: Annona squamosa L.

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

Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (13), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 56 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 75 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 75 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); syncarp (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 111.25 mm (35-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 40.75 mm (18-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.3 cm (0.7-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); lanceolate (2); narrowly_elliptical (2); oblong (2); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); cuneate (1); obtuse (1); rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): distichous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; 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]
  • dispersers (categorical): bats (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 13.25 mm (12-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.67 m (6-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231519Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_20231113D. 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_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. 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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.