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Bridelia leichhardtii

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Bridelia leichhardtii Baill. ex Müll.Arg.

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Amanoa faginea Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Amanoa leichhardti Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Amanoa leichhardtii Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bridelia faginea (Baill.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia leichardtii B.D.Jacks. (orthographic variant)
  • Bridelia leichhardi Müll.Arg. (orthographic variant)
  • Bridelia leichhardtii Baill. ex Müll.Arg. var. leichhardtii (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bridelia leichhardtii var. glabrata Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia melanthesioides var. australiensis Gehrm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia melanthesoides var. australiensis W.E.Cooper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia faginea Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia leichardi Baill. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia leichhardii A.D.Chapm. (orthographic variant)
  • Briedelia leichhardii var. glabrata A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia leichhardtii P.I.Forst. & R.J.F.Hend. (orthographic variant)
  • Briedelia melanthesoides var. australiensis A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bridelia melanthesioides Klotzsch (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Butler_2004 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Kooyman_2011 (13), McCarthy_2017 (18), RadfordSmith_2024 (45), Sams_2017 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 58 traits from 159 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (3-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1238.82 mm2 (655.34-2277.51 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 78.75 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 35.25 mm (6-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 82.86 mg (51.5-123.42 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.2-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 97.58 g/m2 (55.29-162.95 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.45 g/g (0.4-0.47 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); obovate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (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): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Sams_2017; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyynnyyy (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.38 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.65 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.78 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241545J. 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.
ABRS_20231720Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_20201919M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
McCarthy_2017318J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. 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.
Sams_201789M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Gross_200544C. 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_200644A. 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.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.