AusTraits

Atractocarpus hirtus

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Atractocarpus hirtus (F.Muell.) Puttock

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Gardenia hirta F.Muell. (basionym)
  • Randia hirta (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Rothmannia hirta (F.Muell.) Fagerl. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Apgaua_2017 (12), Cheesman_2020 (23), Cooper_2013 (13), Falster_2005_1 (8), Grubb_1996 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Weerasinghe_2014 (27), Wells_2012 (128), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 65 traits from 234 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): dioecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 40 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 23 mm (18-28 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 5919.81 mm2 (1318.59-11374 mm2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 145 mm (40-250 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 62.5 mm (30-95 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 181.84 mg (50.25-283.17 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 50.67 g/m2 (32.58-72 g/m2) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Weerasinghe_2014; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.25 g/g (0.22-0.28 g/g) [sources: Weerasinghe_2014; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (1) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): moth (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (1); cassowaries (1); mammals (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 15.19 mg/g (12.59-16.35 mg/g) [sources: Cheesman_2020; Falster_2005_1; Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.8 mg/g (0.8-0.8 mg/g) [sources: Weerasinghe_2014]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -35.66 {delta}[ppth] (-35.99--34.85 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Cheesman_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 32 mg (32-32 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (6-7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.36-0.84 mg/mm3) [sources: Apgaua_2017; Falster_2005_1; Wells_2012]
  • huber_value (numerical): 0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf} (0-0 mm2{sapwood}/mm2{leaf}) [sources: Falster_2005_1]
  • stem_vessel_density (numerical): 106.56 {count}/mm2 (106.56-106.56 {count}/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_diameter (numerical): 23.25 um (23.25-23.25 um) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
  • stem_vessel_lumen_fraction (numerical): 0.04 mm2/mm2 (0.04-0.04 mm2/mm2) [sources: Apgaua_2017]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4 m (4-4 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_201222128J. 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.
Weerasinghe_20141227L. K. Weerasinghe, D. Creek, K. Y. Crous, S. Xiang, M. J. Liddell, M. H. Turnbull, and O. K. Atkin. “Canopy position affects the relationships between leaf respiration and associated traits in a tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland”. Tree Physiology 34.6 (2014), pp. 564-584. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu016.
Cheesman_20201223A. W. Cheesman, H. Duff, K. Hill, L. A. Cernusak, and F. A. McInerney. “Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: A modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia”. American Journal of Botany 107 (2020), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1523.
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.
Apgaua_20171112D. 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.
Falster_2005_168D. S. Falster and M. Westoby. “Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia”. Journal of Ecology 93 (2005), pp. 521-535. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2005.00992.x.
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.
Grubb_199633P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.