AusTraits

Calophyllum costatum

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Family Clusiaceae

Taxonomy: Calophyllum costatum F.M.Bailey

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Cooper_2013 (13), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kanowski_2000 (44), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 107 records in 11 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 (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 33.25 mm (25-45 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 32.75 mm (23-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 1660 mm2 (1480-1840 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 67.5 mm (45-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 31.5 mm (22-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 184.61 g/m2 (166.39-202.84 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • 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 (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 5600 mg (5600-5600 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 27.75 mm (20-33 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 25 mm (20-30 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.61 mg/mm3 (0.6-0.63 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 34.33 m (33-35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Kanowski_20002244J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_20111014R. 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.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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.
Ilic_200013J. 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.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.