Bobea myrtoides
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Bobea myrtoides (F.Muell.) Valeton
Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Antirhea myrtoides (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
- Antirrhaea myrtoides F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
- Antirrhoea myrtoides F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)
- Guettarda myrtoides F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Matthiola myrtodes Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
- Matthiola myrtoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Distribution (APC): Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (3), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wills_2018 (45), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 83 records in 8 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 (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (40-115 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_width (numerical): 33 mm (16-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 84.12 g/m2 (78.99-88.2 g/m2) [sources: Wills_2018]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (3) [sources: 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 (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.54 mg/g (11.68-15.31 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
- leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.44 mg/g (0.39-0.48 mg/g) [sources: Wills_2018]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 8.75 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
- seed_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 18 m (18-18 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wills_2018 | 15 | 45 | 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. |
| Cooper_2013 | 11 | 14 | 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. |
| Gross_2005 | 3 | 3 | 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 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| eFLOWER_Dun_2022 | 1 | 2 | L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |