Atractocarpus merikin

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Atractocarpus merikin (F.M.Bailey) Puttock

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Gardenia merikin F.M.Bailey (basionym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Randia sessilis F.Muell. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sams_2017 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (108), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 151 records in 7 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): 52.5 mm (35-70 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 35 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4797.71 mm2 (1719.69-8488.7 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (40-200 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 60 mm (30-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 315.13 mg (102.69-589.8 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 71.13 g/m2 (54.6-100.91 g/m2) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.32 g/g (0.28-0.35 g/g) [sources: 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 (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; 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]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 7 mm (6-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.67 mg/mm3 (0.5-0.85 mg/mm3) [sources: Sams_2017; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5 m (5-5 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	108	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.
Kooyman_2011	10	14	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.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Sams_2017	8	9	M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
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.
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.