Antirhea tenuiflora

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Antirhea tenuiflora F.Muell. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)

Antirhea tenuifolia B.D.Jacks. (orthographic variant)
Antirrhaea tenuiflora Benth. (orthographic variant)
Antirrhoea tenuifolia B.D.Jacks. (orthographic variant)
Guettarda tenuiflora (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
Guettardella tenuiflora (F.Muell. ex Benth.) M.E.Jansen (nomenclatural synonym)
Matthiola tenuiflora (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Apgaua_2017 (12), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (12), Metcalfe_2009 (18), Rosell_2014 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (106), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Wright_2000 (2), Zieminska_2015 (36). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 73 traits from 222 records in 13 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 16 mm (8-24 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (5-19 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4593.45 mm2 (944.26-6988.57 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 107.5 mm (40-175 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 42.5 mm (20-65 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 133.66 mg (20.83-217.24 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 39.21 g/m2 (22.06-87.69 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012; Zieminska_2015]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.17 g/g (0.14-0.2 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): moth (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wells_2012]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2); cassowaries (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_delta13C (numerical): -33.05 {delta}[ppth] (-33.05--33.05 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 75 mg (75-75 mg) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 11.5 mm (5-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 6.5 mm (5-8 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.53 mg/mm3 (0.32-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Metcalfe_2009; Rosell_2014; Wells_2012; Zieminska_2015]
huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_density (numerical): 174.54 {count}/mm2 (71.04-332.91 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 42.74 um (27.91-56.48 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]
stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.18 mm2/mm2 (0.17-0.2 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Zieminska_2015]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 20 m (20-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	106	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Zieminska_2015	12	36	K. Ziemińska, M. Westoby, and I. J. Wright. “Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms”. PLOS ONE 10.4 (2015), p. e0124892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892.
Metcalfe_2009	18	18	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	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Apgaua_2017	11	12	D. M. G. Apgaua, D. Y. P. Tng, L. A. Cernusak, A. W. Cheesman, R. M. Santos, W. J. Edwards, and S. G. W. Laurance. “Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy”. Functional Ecology 31.3 (2017), pp. 582-591. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12787.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. 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.
Rosell_2014	8	8	J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wright_2000	2	2	I. 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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.