Blepharocarya depauperata

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Blepharocarya depauperata Specht

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

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (15), Brock_1993 (11), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Lawes_2012 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (8). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 33 traits from 59 records in 14 datasets.

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

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (4) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 1826 mm2 (1826-1826 mm2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 66.88 mm (35-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 138.39 g/m2 (138.39-138.39 g/m2) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Wright_2008]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 9.8 mg/g (9.8-9.8 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.46 mg/g (0.46-0.46 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 13 m (13-13 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	10	15	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993	9	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Wright_2008	8	8	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.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.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-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/.
Lawes_2012	1	1	M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.