Atalaya brevialata
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Family Sapindaceae
Taxonomy: Atalaya brevialata Cowie & G.M.Wightman
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Atalaya (D123943) Elizabeth River (taxonomic synonym)
- Atalaya sp. Elizabeth River (G.M.Wightman 6259) NT Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (22), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SPRAT_2025_2 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 44 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.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- flower_diameter (numerical): 0.8 cm (0.8-0.8 cm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 16.5 mm (11-22 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): samara (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 237.5 mm (65-410 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 4.45 mm (1.4-7.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_crenate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: 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): subshrub (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1); woody_base (1) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- reproductive_maturity (numerical): 2.5 a (2-3 a) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 79.68 mg (74.2-85.15 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
- seed_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (8.5-8.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 8 mm (8-8 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.45 m (0.45-0.45 m) [sources: NTH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 18 | 22 | D. 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/. |
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 5 | 6 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 4 | J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x. |
| 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. |
| NTH_2022 | 3 | 3 | D. 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/. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |