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Anopterus macleayanus

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Family Escalloniaceae

Taxonomy: Anopterus macleayanus F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Anopterus macleayana F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2009 (3), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (24), NSWFRD_2014 (5), RadfordSmith_2024 (38), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Westoby_2004 (13), eFLOWER_2021 (33). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 73 traits from 177 records in 18 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); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
  • post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): red_brown (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 33.75 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 8.75 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 9098.07 mm2 (4821.8-18712.75 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (20-40 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 407.51 mg (357.28-435.22 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.5 cm (1-4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 80.08 g/m2 (68.71-96.9 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.24 g/g (0.22-0.25 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblanceolate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023; Westoby_2004]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (6) [sources: Butler_2004; Clarke_2009; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1); basal_stem_buds (1); none (1) [sources: Clarke_2009; Clarke_2015; NSWFRD_2014]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 18.72 mg (18.72-18.72 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 14.5 mm (3-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.25 mm (1-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): winged (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.49 mg/mm3 (0.35-0.59 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Westoby_2004]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 13.33 m (10-15 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241438J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
eFLOWER_20212533J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
NHNSW_20231724N. 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/.
Cooper_20131113W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Westoby_2004413M. Westoby. “Unpublished data: Trait data for plant species at Mt Wellington and Sea Acres, Macquarie University”. 2004.
McCarthy_2017210J. 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.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
NSWFRD_201455B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
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.
Clarke_200933P. J. Clarke, K. J. E. Knox, M. L. Campbell, and L. M. Copeland. “Post-fire recovery of woody plants in the New England Tableland Bioregion”. Cunninghamia 11 (2009), pp. 221-239. doi: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4907.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_202233N. 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/.
NHNSW_2014_222Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.