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Buchanania obovata

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Family Anacardiaceae

Taxonomy: Buchanania obovata Engl.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Buchanania muelleri var. pilosa Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Buchanania oblongifolia W.Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Buchanania angustifolia Roxb. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Buchanania florida Schauer (pro parte misapplied)
  • Buchanania latifolia Roxb. (pro parte misapplied)
  • Buchanania lucida Blume (pro parte 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), ATRP_2020 (2), Brock_1993 (11), Chen_2017 (5), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Dong_2017 (8), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (1), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (11), Lawes_2012 (22), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Prior_2003 (101), Rice_1991 (1), Rosell_2014 (8), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Schmidt_2003 (54), Schulze_1998 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (1), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (7), WAH_2023_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2008 (53), Wright_2019 (438), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (29). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 113 traits from 829 records in 35 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
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.8 cm (0.7-0.9 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13 mm (13-13 mm) [sources: Chen_2017]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 9289.45 mm2 (2981.66-35321 mm2) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 118.33 mm (50-250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 41.67 mm (15-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 2432.48 mg (1150.6-6514.5 mg) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1 cm (0.5-1.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 167.8 g/m2 (120.34-434.78 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017; Prior_2003; Schulze_1998; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_mass_fraction (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.29-0.56 g/g) [sources: Wright_2019]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.15 g/g (0.07-0.4 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • leaf_water_content_per_dry_mass (numerical): 1.62 g/g (1.49-1.84 g/g) [sources: Prior_2003]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); obovate (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_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; Prior_2003]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (4); tree (13) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; NTH_2022; Prior_2003; Rice_1991; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): open (1); spreading (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; WAH_2022_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2); evergreen (2); facultative_drought_deciduous (1); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (5) [sources: Dong_2017; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Wright_2008]
  • root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Lord_1997]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnyyyyyn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): epicormic_buds (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
nutrient and stable isotope
  • leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 11.11 mg/g (2.26-21.26 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017; Prior_2003; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.72 mg/g (0.49-1.12 mg/g) [sources: Prior_2003; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
  • leaf_delta13C (numerical): -28.22 {delta}[ppth] (-30.08--26.7 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017; Schmidt_2003; Schulze_1998; Wright_2019]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 302.14 mg (281.7-322.58 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
  • seed_length (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.3-0.68 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Rosell_2014; Wright_2008; Wright_2019]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 10.33 m (1-15 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wright_201937438I. J. Wright, J. Cooke, L. A. Cernusak, L. B. Hutley, M. C. Scalon, W. C. Tozer, and C. E. R. Lehmann. “Stem diameter growth rates in a fire-prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area”. Austral Ecology 44.2 (2018), pp. 339-350. doi: 10.1111/aec.12678.
Prior_200321101L. D. Prior, D. Eamus, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: A comparison of four habitats in northern Australia”. Functional Ecology 17 (2003), pp. 504-515. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00761.x.
Schmidt_20031054S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Wright_2008953I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
eFLOWER_Dun_20222229L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Schulze_1998823E. -. Schulze, R. J. Williams, G. D. Farquhar, W. Schulze, J. Langridge, J. M. Miller, and B. H. Walker. “Carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination and nitrogen nutrition of trees along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 25.4 (1998), pp. 413-425. doi: 10.1071/PP97113.
Lawes_2012122M. J. Lawes, J. J. Midgley, and P. J. Clarke. “Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: A savanna/forest contrast”. Journal of Ecology 101 (2012), pp. 517-524. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12035.
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.
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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.
Dong_201788N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017.
Rosell_201488J. A. Rosell, S. Gleason, R. Mendez-Alonzo, Y. Chang, and M. Westoby. “Bark functional ecology: Evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity”. New Phytologist 201.2 (2014), pp. 486-497. doi: 10.1111/nph.12541.
WAH_2022_247Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Chen_201755Chen, 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.
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.
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.
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_2023_213Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ATRP_202022F. 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.
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.
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_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Munroe_201911S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
NTH_202311D. 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/.
Rice_199111B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Growth form of Kakadu plant species, Macquarie University”. 1991.
Sweedman_200611L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
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.