AusTraits

Austrobaileya scandens

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Family Austrobaileyaceae

Taxonomy: Austrobaileya scandens C.T.White

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Austrobaileya maculata C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (14), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Gallagher_2012 (3), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Read_2003 (62), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (66), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4), eFLOWER_2021 (32), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (41). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 85 traits from 261 records in 18 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
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 5 cm (4-6 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 57 mm (38-70 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 41.25 mm (30-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gallagher_2012; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3622.8 mm2 (1850.43-5699.99 mm2) [sources: Read_2003; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 81.25 mm (40-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 238.62 mg (98.92-549 mg) [sources: Read_2003; Wells_2012]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2 cm (1-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 66.41 g/m2 (44.73-119.33 g/m2) [sources: Read_2003; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.19 g/g (0.15-0.29 g/g) [sources: Read_2003; Wells_2012]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_ovate (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; Read_2003]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (4); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • plant_climbing_mechanism (categorical): twining (1) [sources: Gallagher_2012]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (1); cassowaries (2); mammals (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyynn (1); nnnnnnnyynnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 364.8 mg (69.59-660 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 19 mm (15-23 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 15 mm (12-18 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.36 mg/mm3 (0.31-0.43 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122266J. 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.
Read_20031862J. Read and G. D. Sanson. “Characterizing sclerophylly: the mechanical properties of a diverse range of leaf types”. New Phytologist 160.1 (2003), pp. 81-99. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00855.x.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222641L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
eFLOWER_20212332J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
ABRS_2023914Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
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.
Wright_200044I. 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.
Gallagher_201233R. V. Gallagher and M. R. Leishman. “A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants”. Journal of Biogeography 39.10 (2012), pp. 1757-1771. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02773.x.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Chen_201711Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Kew_2019_411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.