AusTraits

Bruguiera exaristata

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Family Rhizophoraceae

Taxonomy: Bruguiera exaristata Ding Hou

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Bruguiera gymnorhiza (L.) Savigny (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Brock_1993 (10), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (11), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_3 (4), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 86 records in 18 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 (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 14.5 mm (13-16 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 91.25 mm (40-140 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41.12 mm (20-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.1 cm (1.5-2.6 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (2); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin_posture (categorical): involute (1); revolute (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; 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): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyyyn (1); nnnyyyyyyynn (1); nyyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
  • clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): viviparous (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3650 mg (3000-4300 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 14.5 mm (13-16 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4 mm (3-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.84 mg/mm3 (0.84-0.84 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 11.6 m (8-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231114Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2023812D. 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/.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011911R. 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.
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Kew_2019_344Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
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/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200622A. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Ilic_200011J. 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.
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.