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Bridelia tomentosa

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Family Phyllanthaceae

Taxonomy: Bridelia tomentosa Blume

Synonyms: 18 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Amanoa tomentosa (Blume) Baill. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bridelia glabrifolia Merr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia phyllanthoides W.Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa Blume var. tomentosa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. eriantha Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. glabrescens Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. glabrifolia (Merr.) Airy Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. lanceaefolia Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. lancifolia Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. ovoidea Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Bridelia tomentosa var. trichadenia Müll.Arg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia phyllanthoides W.Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia tomentosa A.D.Chapm. (orthographic variant)
  • Briedelia tomentosa A.D.Chapm. var. tomentosa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. eriantha A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. glabrifolia A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. ovoidea A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Briedelia tomentosa var. trichadenia A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bridelia monoica (Lour.) Merr. (misapplied)
  • Bridelia ovata Decne. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (20), Brock_1993 (11), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Lord_1997 (4), NTH_2014 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (21), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 115 records in 21 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5.25 mm (3.5-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 4.67 mm (2-6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 78.88 mm (32-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 44.5 mm (10-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.34 cm (0.2-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); narrowly_elliptical (1); oblanceolate (1); oblong (1); obovate (2); orbicular (1); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (2); rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (6); tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1); nnyyyynnnnnn (1); nyyyyynnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 17 mg (17-17 mg) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); ovoid_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 4.5 m (1-6 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NTH_20231521D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
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.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Kooyman_2011810R. 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.
Lord_199744J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
NTH_201444Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
RussellSmith_201244J. 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_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.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. 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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_200011I. 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.