AusTraits

Antiaris toxicaria

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Antiaris toxicaria Lesch.

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

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (11), Clarke_2015 (2), Cooper_2013 (13), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (13), Lawes_2012 (16), Lemmens_1994 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (19), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (12). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 98 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 31.25 mm (20-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 17.25 mm (9-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 127.5 mm (40-210 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 59.17 mm (27-100 mm) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.75 cm (0.5-1 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (2) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyyyn (1); nnyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 4787.7 mg (667-8908.41 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 24 mm (18-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.33 mg/mm3 (0.31-0.34 mg/mm3) [sources: Lemmens_1994; Zanne_2009]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 29.5 m (20-35 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231419D. 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/.
Lawes_2012116M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Cooper_20131013W. 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.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022812L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_202244D. 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/.
Clarke_201522P. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Lemmens_199411R. Lemmens and I. Soerjanegara. Prosea, Volume 5/1: Timber Trees - Major Commercial Timbers. Pudoc/Prosea, 1993. ISBN: 9789022010334.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Zanne_200911A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.