AusTraits

Aristotelia peduncularis

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Family Elaeocarpaceae

Taxonomy: Aristotelia peduncularis (Labill.) Hook.f.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Elaeocarpus peduncularis Labill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Friesia peduncularis (Labill.) DC. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Tas

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Clarke_2015 (3), Jordan_2001 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kirkpatrick_2020 (4), Kooyman_2011 (11), McGlone_2015 (6), Mokany_2015 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Smith_1996 (115), TMAG_2009 (12), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 45 traits from 170 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2); monoecious (1) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Jordan_2001; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1142.24 mm2 (86-1924.23 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015; Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 57.42 mm (15-80 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 19.64 mm (5-35 mm) [sources: McGlone_2015; Smith_1996; Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 28.08 mg (14.58-49.19 mg) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 51.96 g/m2 (44.23-59.69 g/m2) [sources: Smith_1996; Tng_2013]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.35-0.44 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.61 g/g (1.27-1.87 g/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]
  • leaf_inclination_angle (numerical): 31 deg (5-65 deg) [sources: Smith_1996]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Jordan_2001; TMAG_2009; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; TMAG_2009]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); mammals (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: TMAG_2009]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): canopy_seedbank_absent (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Kirkpatrick_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.05 mg/g (14.05-14.05 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.48 mg/g (0.48-0.48 mg/g) [sources: Smith_1996]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -34.39 {delta}[ppth] (-34.39--34.39 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Tng_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 6.96 mg (6.96-6.96 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.77 mg/mm3 (0.77-0.77 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: McGlone_2015; TMAG_2009]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Smith_199617115B. Smith. “Community-level convergence and community structure of temperate Nothofagus forests”. PhD. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1996. url: http://web.nateko.lu.se/personal/benjamin.smith/thesis/thesis.html.
TMAG_20091012Tasmanian Herbarium. Flora of Tasmania Online. 2009. url: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania.
Kooyman_2011811R. 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.
McGlone_201566M. S. McGlone, S. J. Richardson, G. J. Jordan, and G. L. Perry. “Is there a `suboptimal' woody species height? A response to Scheffer et al.”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30.1 (2015), pp. 4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.007.
Jordan_200155G. J. Jordan. “An investigation of long-distance dispersal based on species native to both Tasmania and New Zealand”. Australian Journal of Botany 49.3 (2001), pp. 333-340. doi: 10.1071/bt00024.
Tng_201355D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
Kirkpatrick_202044J. Kirkpatrick. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits for woody Tasmanian endemic species, University of Tasmania”. 2020.
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_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.
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/.
Mokany_201511K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.