Cardiopteris moluccana

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Family Cardiopteridaceae

Taxonomy: Cardiopteris moluccana Blume

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cardiopteris lobata var. moluccana (Blume) Mast. (nomenclatural synonym)
Peripterygium moluccanum (Blume) Sleumer (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cardiopteris lobata Benn. & R.Br. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (1), ABRS_2023 (9), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (10), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Metcalfe_2009 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 74 records in 13 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 29.5 mm (23-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 21 mm (18-24 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): samara (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (3); fleshy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 31680 mm2 (31680-31680 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 150 mm (60-240 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 135 mm (50-220 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 7.5 cm (3-12 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); ovate (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_1981; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3); climber_woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): fly (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): wind (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 11 mg (11-11 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	12	17	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Metcalfe_2009	13	13	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
Cooper_2013	8	10	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	R. 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.
ABRS_2023	8	9	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, 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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. 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_1981	2	2	B. 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/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_2022	1	1	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. 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.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.