Austromatthaea elegans

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Family Monimiaceae

Taxonomy: Austromatthaea elegans L.S.Sm.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (19), Chen_2017 (7), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (62), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 46 traits from 125 records in 10 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); monoecious (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 17 mm (15-20 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 12 mm (12-12 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); blue (1); purple (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4102.51 mm2 (3126.54-4790.35 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 148.75 mm (95-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 33.75 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 223.82 mg (180.02-264.29 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.8 cm (0.6-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 54.57 g/m2 (49.02-57.58 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.32 g/g (0.29-0.35 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): beetle (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyyyn (2); nnnnnnyyyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 10.5 mm (9-12 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.73 mg/mm3 (0.73-0.73 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.75 m (2-7 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	62	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.
ABRS_2023	14	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	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.
Chen_2017	7	7	Chen, 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.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. 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/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.