Backhousia kingii

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Backhousia kingii Guymer

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

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), RadfordSmith_2024 (41), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 75 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): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 14 mm (10-18 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 17 mm (14-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1); nut (1); samara (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 468.93 mm2 (339.22-582.92 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_length (numerical): 26.5 mm (15-38 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 50.76 mg (37.28-59.45 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 108.43 g/m2 (101.11-111.9 g/m2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.48 g/g (0.44-0.5 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1.25 mm (0.5-2 mm) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.8 mg/mm3 (0.79-0.82 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 16 m (12-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RadfordSmith_2024	15	41	J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	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.
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.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.