Blepharocarya involucrigera

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Blepharocarya involucrigera F.Muell.

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 (15), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Williams_2012 (3), Wills_2018 (60), Wright_2000 (1), Zanne_2009 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 61 traits from 141 records in 17 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 (1) [sources: Williams_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
flower_diameter (numerical): 0.19 cm (0.15-0.25 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (7-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (3); nutlet (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 181.67 mm (50-400 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (15-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 144.64 g/m2 (123.45-171.76 g/m2) [sources: Wills_2018]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Williams_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 14.85 mg/g (13.56-16.73 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.68 mg/g (0.61-0.71 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 14.43 mg (14.43-14.43 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.48 mg/mm3 (0.45-0.5 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Zanne_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wills_2018	15	60	J. Wills, J. Herbohn, J. Hu, S. Sohel, J. Baynes, and J. Firn. “Tree leaf trade-offs are stronger for sub-canopy trees: leaf traits reveal little about growth rates in canopy trees”. Ecological Applications 28.4 (2018), pp. 1116-1125. doi: 10.1002/eap.1715.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	16	19	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.
Cooper_2013	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	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.
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.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
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.
Williams_2012	3	3	P. R. Williams, M. Parsons, R. Jensen, and C. Tran. “Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forests”. Austral Ecology 37.2 (2012), pp. 268-275. ISSN: 1442-9993. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02271.x.
Ilic_2000	1	2	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
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/.
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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. 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.
Zanne_2009	1	1	A. E. Zanne, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, D. A. Coomes, J. Ilic, S. Jansen, S. L. Lewis, R. B. Miller, N. G. Swenson, M. C. Wiemann, and J. Chave. “Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum”. Dryad Digital Repository (2009). doi: 10.5061/dryad.234.